William Fairchild

English writer, film director, screenwriter and playwright

William Fairchild (sometimes credited as W. E. C. Fairchild) (January 6, 1918 – May 9, 2000)^[1] was an English author, playwright, director and screenwriter.^[2]^[3]^[4] He was married to actress Isabel Dean from 1953 to the early 1970s,^[5] and to producer, agent, and writer Robin Dalton from 1992 until his death.^[6]

Selected filmography

A Song for Tomorrow (1948) – story, script
Penny and the Pownall Case (1948) – story, script
Colonel Bogey (1948) – script
Badger's Green (1949) – script
Morning Departure (1950) – script
The Long Dark Hall (1951) – additional dialogue
Outcast of the Islands (1951) – script
The Man with the Gun (1952) – script
Gift Horse (1952) – script
The Net (1953) – script
Malta Story (1953) – script
Front Page Story (1954) – script
The Seekers (1954) – script
Passage Home (1955) – script
John and Julie (1955) – script, original play, director
Value for Money (1955) – script
No Man's Land (1956) (TV) – script, original play
The Extra Day (1956 – script, director
The Silent Enemy (1958) – script, director
The Four Just Men (1959–60) (TV series) – script, director
The Horsemasters (1961) – script, director
199 Park Lane (1965) (TV series) – script, creator
Do Not Disturb (1965) – original play
Star! (1968) – script
The Last Shot You Hear (1969) – original play
Embassy (1972) – script
The Darwin Adventure (1972) – script
The MacKintosh Man (1973) – uncredited writer
The Sound of Murder (1982) – script, original play
Invitation to the Wedding (1985) – script

References

^ "William Fairchild". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
^ "William Fairchild". Archived from the original on 1 August 2018.
^ "William Fairchild – Person – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
^ "William Fairchild – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos – AllMovie". AllMovie.
^ Vallance, Tom (8 August 1997). "Obituary: Isabel Dean". The Independent. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
^ Wheatley, Jane (3 March 2017). "How Sydney socialite and film producer Robin Dalton stole the headlines from WWII". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 August 2021.