Date of Birth
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10-October-1924
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Place of Birth
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Sydney
(Australia, New South Wales, Oceania)
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Nationality
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United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia
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Also know as
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Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle
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Profession
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Novelist, Screenwriter, Film director, Television Producer, Film Producer
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James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell, was an Australian-born British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love.
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