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Ben Travers
English writer of plays, screenplays, novels, and three memoirs (1886-1980) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 94
Ben Travers was an English writer. His output includes more than 20 plays, 30 screenplays, 5 novels, and 3 volumes of memoirs. He is most notable for his long-running series of farces first staged in the 1920s and 1930s at the Aldwych Theatre. Many of these were made into films and later television productions.
Ben Travers is read about 12 times a day, in 6 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 21 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
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- Robertson Hare Also in Plunder and Rookery Nook
Mary Brough Also in Plunder and Rookery Nook- Veronica Rose Also in A Cuckoo in the Nest and Turkey Time
Yvonne Arnaud Also in A Cuckoo in the Nest and Lady in Danger
W. P. Lipscomb Also in Plunder and Rookery Nook- Claude Hulbert Also in A Night Like This and Thark
Arthur Wontner Also in Dishonour Bright and Old Iron
Marie Lohr Also in Lady in Danger and Foreign Affaires
Eva Moore Also in A Cup of Kindness and Old Iron
Diana Churchill Also in Foreign Affaires and Dishonour Bright- Dorothy Hyson Also in Turkey Time and A Cup of Kindness
Thornton Freeland Directed So This Is London (1939)
Jack Raymond Directed Up to the Neck (1933)
O. B. Clarence Also in Lady in Danger and Uncle Silas
Davy Burnaby Also in Stormy Weather and Second Best Bed- Hubert Harben Also in Lady in Danger and Dishonour Bright
- Gordon Parry Directed Fast and Loose (1954)
Also in Français
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About this person
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1886 to 1980 · aged 94
