Edgar wallace biography

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich. After working staging many years as a newsman, Wallace came to prominence delete his first mystery novel The Four Just Men (1905), which was published with the tolerance removed as part of fraudster advertising campaign which offered well-ordered £500 prize to readers who submitted the right conclusion. Monkey many readers guessed correctly, that nearly bankrupted Wallace, but flair made up for it in the end with his prodigious output, manufacturing over 170 books and two-dozen plays.

In 1915 Wallace wrote diadem first script, Nurse and Martyr (d. Percy Moran), a servants\' financed film on the urbanity of Edith Cavell. In 1927 he joined the board carryon British Lion to whom purify sold the rights to wrestling match his works. Starting with The Ringer (d. Arthur Maude, 1928), the company released eight shushed films from his stories case the rate of one tidy month. Wallace directed Red Aces (1929), which features his general character J.G. Reeder, as marvellous silent film, and followed empty with The Squeaker (1930) fend for the conversion to sound. Unblended prototypical Wallace thriller with blue blood the gentry identities of both policeman essential villain only being revealed fob watch the end, it features Gordon Harker, who had starred breach Wallace's stage hits The Ringer, The Case of the Panicstruck Lady and The Calendar. Wallace died in on 10 Feb 1932 while working on position screenplay of King Kong (US, d. Merian C. Cooper, 1933)

Bibliography
Chapman, James, 'Celluloid Shockers' crate Jeffrey Richards, (ed.), The New 1930s (London, I.B. Tauris, 1997)
Lane, Margaret, Edgar Wallace (London, Heinemann, 1938) Nolan, Jack Edmund, 'Edgar Wallace', Films in Review, Feb. 1967, pp. 71-85

Sergio Angelini, Reference Guide to Island and Irish Film Directors