Biography
Charles Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright and screenwriter. Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, he began writing plays as a child and worked as an actor on stage before serving in the First World War. He later concentrated on playwriting, achieving success with Blackmail (1928), which Alfred Hitchcock adapted into a film in 1929.
Bennett collaborated extensively with Hitchcock on several British thrillers, including The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936) and Young and Innocent (1937). He moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s, where he contributed to Foreign Correspondent (1940), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His later credits include work for Cecil B. DeMille and Irwin Allen, as well as the screenplay for Night of the Demon (1957).
