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Alec Coppel

Writer · 1907–1972 · Melbourne, Australia

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Biography

Alec Coppel (17 September 1907 – 22 January 1972) was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent most of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo(1958), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Mr Denning Drives North (1951) and Obsession (1949), and the plays I Killed the Count and The Gazebo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alec Coppel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Wrote 26

2010s

  1. 2019

    Jo

    Author

1990s

  1. 1990

    Unfinished Crime

    Original Story

1970s

  1. 1971

    Jo

    Theatre Play

    71

1960s

  1. 1969

    ITV Saturday Night Theatre

    Writer

  2. 1968

    The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

    Screenplay, Theatre Play

  3. 1966

    Moment to Moment

    Screenplay, Story

  4. 1963

    The Laughing Crime

    Original Story

  5. 1962

    The Swordsman of Siena

    Screenplay

  6. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    Writer

    83

1950s

  1. 1959

    The Gazebo

    Novel

  2. 1958

    Vertigo

    Screenplay

    88
  3. 1957

    Alcoa Theatre

    Story, Writer

  4. Appointment with a Shadow

    Screenplay

  5. 1955

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    Story

    83
  6. 1954

    The Black Knight

    Screenplay

    55

  7. Hell Below Zero

    Screenplay

  8. 1953

    The Captain's Paradise

    Story, Screenplay

  9. 1951

    Mr. Denning Drives North

    Novel, Screenplay

  10. Two on the Tiles

    Writer

  11. No Highway in the Sky

    Writer

    71

  12. Smart Alec

    Writer

1940s

  1. 1949

    Obsession

    Screenplay, Novel, Dialogue

    72
  2. 1948

    Brass Monkey

    Screenplay

  3. Woman Hater

    Story

  4. 1946

    Smithy

    Screenplay

1930s

  1. 1939

    Over the Moon

    Writer