Writing
Eliot Stannard
Born — Died
1888-03-01 — 1944-11-21
Place of birth
Wandsworth, London, England, UK
Known for
Writing
Credits
40 titles
Eliot Stannard (1 March 1888 – 21 November 1944) was an English screenwriter and director. Stannard wrote the screenplay for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1933, including eight films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He also directed five films. During the early 1920s, he worked on most of the screenplays for the Ideal Film Company, one of Britain's leading silent film studios. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known for
7.2London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
NRThe film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
Florence Nightingale
1915
5.3Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Easy Virtue
1928
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
Her Luck in London
1914
5.3Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
The Pleasure Garden
1925
British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
The Toilers
1919
Behind the camera
7.2London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
1927
NRThe film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
Florence Nightingale
1915
5.3Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.
Easy Virtue
1928
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
Her Luck in London
1914
5.3Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
The Pleasure Garden
1925
British romantic drama film starring Ronald Colman as a young man who leaves behind his family and girl in a Cornish fishing village to seek his fortune in London. Two of five reels survive.
The Toilers
1919
10.0A sacked clerk rises to become Mayor and weds the daughter of the councillor who fired him.
The Card
1922
Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.
Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
1920
No synopsis available yet.
The Will
1921
NRAdventures of a squire's disowned son who proves to be his bastard heir.
Tom Jones
1917
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
White Heat
1927
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
The Bachelor's Club
1921
A lady's lover draws spills with her husband to decide who shall commit suicide.
Red Pottage
1918
A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.
A Sailor Tramp
1922
In Scotland an orphan competes with a prince for the chief's daughter and saves her from a wicked duke.
The Fair Maid of Perth
1923
7.0Story of nephew's tribulations in conveying penguin to wealthy uncle's seaside home.
To Brighton with Gladys
1933
10.0Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Wuthering Heights
1920
A cowboy saves a village girl from a mad squire's torture chamber.
Hutch Stirs 'em Up
1923
A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.
Settled Out of Court
1925
British silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley...
Love and Hate
1924
5.0In the Kentucky hills, a schoolteacher becomes caught in a bitter feud between a widower, his crippled son, and a reclusive hermit. Accusations and jealousy drive her into hiding, leading to love and revenge. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this 1926 romantic drama is now considered lost and remains one of the BFI’s most sought-after missing films.
The Mountain Eagle
1926
2.7Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
Nelson
1918
8.0A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Blighty
1927
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick
1921
A son tries to overturn the disgrace of his father, who committed suicide.
Nets of Destiny
1924
A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
The Twelve Pound Look
1920
A king declares war to force a princess to wed his hunchbacked brother.
The Prince and the Beggarmaid
1921
8.0A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.
Paddy The Next Best Thing
1923
In Scotland, a feud between a laird and a farmer ends when their children marry.
Bonnie Mary
1918
Victor Drew is a British private investigator who must solve the mystery of who is killing off members of the Ravenscroft clan.
The Curse of Ravenscroft
1926
A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.
Heartstrings
1923
No synopsis available yet.
The Audacious Mr. Squire
1923
7.0In Monte Carlo, Lady Wellingford cannot redeem a necklace from a jeweler.
Above Rubies
1932
British horror short from 1923.
The Mistletoe Bough
1923
A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne
A Safe Affair
1931
A gypsy girl saves a runaway girl from her rich fiancé.
The Romany
1923
Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.
Torn Sails
1920
A boxer saves a lady who joins gypsies on learning she is the subject of a bet.
The Gay Corinthian
1924
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
The Diamond Man
1924
7.0A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.
Build Thy House
1920
