Bryan Edgar Wallace

Bryan Edgar Wallace (1904–1971) was a British writer. The son of the writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan was also a writer of crime and mystery novels which were very similar in style to those of his father. During the 1930s he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry. During the 1960s and early 1970s, several of his works were made into German films during a boom in adaptations of his father's novels.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Squeaker (1930)
• The Flying Squad (1932)
• White Face, the Fiend (1932)
• My Old Dutch (1934)
• The Clairvoyant (1935)
• Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936)
• Murder on Diamond Row (1937)
• Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
• The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939)
• Secret of the Black Trunk (1961) made in Germany
• The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963) made in Germany
• The Mad Executioners (1963) made in Germany
• Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse (1963) made in Germany
• The Phantom of Soho (1964) made in Germany
• The Monster of London City (1964) made in Germany
• The Racetrack Murders (1964) aka The Seventh Victim, made in Germany
• Death Avenger of Soho (1971) Spanish film directed by Jesus Franco
• The Dead Are Alive (1972) made in Italy, directed by Armando Crispino

(*Note - Bryan Edgar Wallace also reputedly contributed to the screenplay for Dario Argento's Cat O'Nine Tails (1971) but was uncredited.)

References

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

External links

• Bryan Edgar Wallace on IMDb