Biography
Harold Marsh Harwood (29 March 1874 – 19 April 1959) was a British playwright, screenwriter, theatre manager and businessman. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, and qualified as a doctor before joining the family cotton-spinning firm in Bolton.
Harwood wrote numerous plays, several of which were produced in the West End and on Broadway, including The Pelican (co-written with his wife F. Tennyson Jesse), Cynara and The Man in Possession. He managed the Ambassadors Theatre in London from 1919 to 1932. His screenwriting credits include the screenplay for Queen Christina (1933), co-written with Salka Viertel, and Personal Property (1937), adapted from his own play.
