Laird Doyle (1907–1936) was an American

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.Brown p.76 Doyle was under contract to

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during the mid-1930s, before his sudden death at the age of twenty-nine. One of his final films was the British comedy ''

Strangers on Honeymoon ''Strangers on Honeymoon'' is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on the 1926 novel '' The Northing Tramp'' by Edgar Wallace. Much of the film takes place ...

''. Some of his screenplay work was used posthumously, his last credited film being in 1947.

Filmography

* ''

Hell Below ''Hell Below'' (aka ''Pigboats'') is a 1933 American MGM pre-Code film set in the Adriatic Sea during World War I about submarine warfare based on Commander Edward Ellsberg's novel ''Pigboats''. The film stars Robert Montgomery, Walter Huston ...

'' (1933) * '' Jimmy the Gent'' (1934) * '' The Key'' (1934) * ''

British Agent ''British Agent'' is a 1934 American romantic espionage film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Leslie Howard and Kay Francis. It is based on ''Memoirs of a British Agent'', the 1932 autobiography of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, who worked for ...

'' (1934) * '' Bordertown'' (1935) * ''

Front Page Woman ''Front Page Woman'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay by Laird Doyle, Lillie Hayward and Roy Chanslor based on the novel ''Women Are Bum Newspapermen'' by Richard Macauley. Plot Ellen Garfield refuses t ...

'' (1935) * '' Special Agent'' (1935) * '' Dangerous'' (1935) * ''

'' (1936) * '' Hearts Divided'' (1936) * '' Cain and Mabel'' (1936) * ''

The Prince and the Pauper ''The Prince and the Pauper'' is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, ...

'' (1937) * ''

San Quentin San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in Marin County. Opened in July 1852, San Quentin is th ...

'' (1937) * '' Another Dawn'' (1937) * ''

Singapore Woman ''Singapore Woman'' is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Brenda Marshall and David Bruce. The Warner Bros. B picture is a remake of '' Dangerous'' (1935) using leftover sets from ''The Letter'' (1940). The stor ...

'' (1941) * '' Northwest Outpost'' (1947)

References

Bibliography

* Brown, Geoff. ''Launder and Gilliat''. British Film Institute, 1977.

External links

* 1907 births 1936 deaths 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-stub