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JAMES BRIDIE

  (1888 - 1951)
Nationality:    Scottish
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

James Bridie (3 January 1888 in Glasgow - 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh) was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor. He took his pen-name from his paternal grandfather's first name and his grandmother's maiden name. Mavor studied medicine at the University of Glasgow graduating in 1913, then served as a military doctor during World War I, seeing service in France and Mesopotamia. His comedic plays saw success in London, and he became a full-time writer in 1938. Despite this, he returned to the army during World War II, again serving as a doctor. He was the main founder of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, with his cousin, the author Guy McCrone and was also instrumental in the establishment of the Edinburgh Festival. Bridie worked with the director Alfred Hitchcock in the late 1940s. They worked together on: The Paradine Case (1947). Bridie originally wrote the screenplay, and Ben Hecht contributed some additional dialogue. But due to casting, the characters had to be changed. So David O. Selznick had to write another script. Under Capricorn (1949); Stage Fright (1950). In 1923, he married Rona Locke Bremner (1897-1985). Their son was killed in World War II. His other son Ronald (1925-2007) was also both a physician and playwright. Ronald became drama critic of The Scotsman after retiring from medicine, Director of the Scottish Arts Council and Deputy Chairman of the Edinburgh Festival. He was Professor of Drama and Head of the Drama Department at the University of Saskatchewan and was appointed C.B.E. in 1971. James Bridie died in Edinburgh of a stroke and is buried in Glasgow Western Necropolis. The Bridie Library at the Glasgow University Union is named after him, as is the annual Bridie Dinner that takes place in the Union each December. - Wiki

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        Amazed Evangelist, The         Anatomist, The         Babes In the Wood         Baikie Charivari, The         Black Eye         Colonel Witherspoon Or the Fourth Way Of Greatness         Dancing Bear, The         Daphne Laureola         Dr Angelus         Dragon And the Dove Or How the Hermit Abraham Fought the Devil For His Niece         Girl Who Did Not Want To Go To Kuala Lumpur, The         Gog And Magog         Golden Legend Of Shults, The         Holy Isle         It Depends On What You Mean         John Knox         Jonah 3         Jonah And the Whale         King Of Nowehere, The         Lancelot         Last Trump         Letter Box Raffles, The         Marriage Is No Joke         Mary Reed         Meeting At Night         Mr Bolfry         Mr Gillie         Pardoner's Tale         Pyrate's Den, The         Queen's Comedy, The         Sleeping Clergyman         Storm In A Teacup, A         Sunlight Sonata         Susannah And the Elders         Switchback         Tedious And Brief         Tobias And the Angel         Tragic Muse, The         What It Is To Be Young         What Say they?