---
name: "F.L. Green"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/f-l-green"
fi1m_id: "f-l-green"
imdb_id: "nm0337837"
tmdb_id: 131454
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "6 April 1902"
died: "14 April 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:08:55.504839+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."
---

# F.L. Green

## Identity

F.L. Green

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/f-l-green
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** f-l-green
- **IMDb ID:** nm0337837
- **TMDB ID:** 131454
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337837/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131454

Writer. Born 6 April 1902 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Died 14 April 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 6 April 1902, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
- **Died:** 14 April 1953
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337837/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131454

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Odd Man Out*](https://film.one/film/odd-man-out.md) (82)

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## Biography

F. L. Green was a British author best known for his 1945 novel *Odd Man Out*, which was adapted into the 1947 film of the same name directed by Carol Reed. He contributed to the screenplay and the work remains his most recognised.

Born Frederick Laurence Green in Portsmouth in 1902, he married Irish-born Margaret Edwards in 1929 and lived in Belfast from the mid-1930s. He published his first novel, *Julius Penton*, in 1934. His second, *On the Night of the Fire* (1939), was also filmed, and he went on to write a further twelve novels, several with Irish settings, up to *Ambush for the Hunter* in 1952.

Green died in Bristol in 1953.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Odd Man Out* (1947), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/odd-man-out.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *The Lost Man* (1969), Novel
- *Odd Man Out* (1947), Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/odd-man-out.md)
- *On the Night of the Fire* (1939), Novel

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