Cyril Theron Campion (1894–1961) was an English

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Readin ...

and

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. He was the father of the actor

Gerald Campion Gerald Theron Campion (23 April 1921 – 9 July 2002) was an English actor. He is best remembered for his role as Billy Bunter in a 1950s television adaptation ('' Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School'') of books by Frank Richards (Charles Hami ...

Selected filmography

* '' Channel Crossing'' (1933) * '' It's You I Want'' (1936) * '' A Touch of the Moon'' (1936) * '' Debt of Honour'' (1936) * '' Convict 99'' (1938) * '' Discoveries'' (1939)

References

Bibliography

* Landy, Marcia. ''British Genres: Cinema and Society, 1930-1960''. Princeton University Press, 2014.

External links

* 1894 births 1961 deaths English male screenwriters Writers from the London Borough of Camden 20th-century English screenwriters 20th-century English male writers English male dramatists and playwrights {{England-writer-stub