Biography
David Pursall (19 August 1917 – 7 September 1986) was a British screenwriter. He grew up in Erdington, Warwickshire, the son of an accountant, and had two murder mystery novels published by the age of sixteen. During the Second World War he served in the RAF, winning the Distinguished Service Cross, before transferring to the Admiralty Press Division. After the war he worked as Publicity Director for the Rank Organisation.
In 1956 Pursall began a long-term writing partnership with Jack Seddon, based at Pinewood Studios. Together they wrote screenplays for three Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films: Murder, She Said (1961), Murder Most Foul (1964) and Murder Ahoy (1964). Pursall contributed additional episodes to the D-Day epic The Longest Day (1962) and wrote The Blue Max (1966), The Alphabet Murders (1965) and Carry On England (1976). His final screen credit was the television film Black Arrow (1985).
