David Evans (writer)

David Evans
Born	7 August 1893 Wales, United Kingdom
Died	20 May 1966 (Aged 72) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1934–1961 (film & TV)

David Evans (August 7, 1893 – May 20, 1966) was a British screenwriter and novelist. He entered the British film industry during the 1930s where he worked on a number of quota quickies. During the 1940s he was employed on several more prestigious films such as Terence Fisher's Portrait from Life (1948). From the mid-1950s he switched to the United States working on a final screenplay Strange Intruder (1956) before switching to television.

Selected filmography

• Boomerang (1934)
• You Must Get Married (1936)
• Landslide (1937)
• Against the Tide (1937)
• Macushla (1937)
• Wise Guys (1937)
• Passenger to London (1937)
• Member of the Jury (1937)
• There Was a Young Man (1937)
• The Five Pound Man (1937)
• Murder in the Family (1938)
• The Londonderry Air (1938)
• Second Thoughts (1938)
• Irish and Proud of It (1938)
• The Villiers Diamond (1938)
• Who Goes Next? (1938)
• What Would You Do, Chums? (1939)
• I'll Turn to You (1946)
• This Man Is Mine (1946)
• When You Come Home (1948)
• The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
• Snowbound (1948)
• Portrait from Life (1949)
• Midnight Episode (1950)
• Once a Sinner (1950)
• The Late Edwina Black (1951)
• The Third Visitor (1951)
• Strange Intruder (1956)

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Nelmes, Jill. The Screenwriter in British Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

External links

• David Evans at the Internet Movie Database