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name: "Bridget Boland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bridget-boland"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "13 March 1913"
died: "19 January 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T05:19:57.565566+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bridget Boland

Writer. Born 13 March 1913 in Greater London. Died 19 January 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 13 March 1913, Greater London
- **Died:** 19 January 1988
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Boland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4966703, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70296

## Biography

Bridget Boland (13 March 1913 – 19 January 1988) was a British screenwriter, playwright and novelist.

Born in London to Irish parents, she was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, and at Oxford University, where she read philosophy, politics and economics, graduating in 1935. She began writing for film in 1937 and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service from 1941 to 1946, producing plays for the troops.

Her screenplays include *Gaslight* (1940), *War and Peace* (1956) and *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969). She also wrote stage plays such as *Cockpit* (1948), later filmed as *The Lost People* (1949), and several novels.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, unitedagents.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Fi1m 60, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Anne of the Thousand Days* (1969), Screenplay — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/anne-of-the-thousand-days.md)
- *Damon and Pythias* (1962), Screenplay
- *The Legend of the Good Beasts* (1956), Writer
- *War and Peace* (1956), Screenplay
- *The Prisoner* (1955), Writer
- *Prelude to Fame* (1950), Additional Dialogue
- *The Lost People* (1949), Theatre Play, Screenplay
- *He Found a Star* (1941), Screenplay
- *This England* (1941), Writer
- *Freedom Radio* (1941), Story
- *Gaslight* (1940), Screenplay
- *Old Mother Riley in Society* (1940), Writer
- *Laugh It Off* (1940), Screenplay
- *Spies of the Air* (1939), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1970: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Anne of the Thousand Days*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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