Awards & Winners

T. E. B. Clarke

Date of Birth 07-June-1907
Place of Birth Watford
(Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke, Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke, Tibby
Profession Writer, Screenwriter
Thomas Ernest Bennett "Tibby" Clarke was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies. His scripts always feature careful logical development from a slightly absurd premise to a farcical conclusion. In 1952 he was awarded a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for his script for The Lavender Hill Mob, making him one of just a handful of Britons to receive this award. He continued to work as a scriptwriter after Ealing ceased production in the mid-fifties, his later contributions including Sons and Lovers and the Disney film The Horse without a Head. Clarke was also a novelist and writer of non-fiction, and was not above presenting his fictions as fact – most notably the 1981 book Murder at Buckingham Palace, which purports to tell the story of a hushed-up murder in the Royal residence in 1935. Despite its including 'documentary' photographs, there is no external evidence that the book is anything but pure fiction. Clarke was the younger brother of military deception pioneer Dudley Clarke. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1960 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre.

Awards by T. E. B. Clarke

Check all the awards nominated and won by T. E. B. Clarke.

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama Sons and Lovers

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Sons and Lovers

1952


Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay
Honored for : The Lavender Hill Mob

Nominations 1952 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay The Lavender Hill Mob

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay Passport to Pimlico