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name: "Hugh Walpole"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 March 1884"
died: "1 June 1941"
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average_as: "actor"
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# Hugh Walpole

Actor. Born 12 March 1884 in Auckland, New Zealand. Died 1 June 1941.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 March 1884, Auckland, New Zealand
- **Died:** 1 June 1941
- **Also known as:** Хью Уолпол
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Walpole, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q548004, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/223106

## Biography

Hugh Walpole was a New Zealand-born British novelist and screenwriter. Born in Auckland in 1884, he was educated in England and published his first novel in 1909. He wrote more than thirty novels, including the Herries Chronicle series beginning with *Rogue Herries* (1930), as well as short stories, plays and memoirs.

In the mid-1930s Walpole worked in Hollywood. He provided the adaptation for the 1935 MGM film *David Copperfield*, in which he also appeared as the vicar, and wrote the screenplay for *Little Lord Fauntleroy* (1936). He was appointed CBE in 1918 and knighted in 1937. Walpole died in 1941 near Keswick, Cumberland.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, hughwalpole.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *David Copperfield* (1935), Fi1m 81, as The Vicar — [page](https://film.one/film/david-copperfield.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Plač pre syna* (1982), Novel
- *Ten from the Twenties* (1975), series, Short Story
- *Between the Wars* (1973), series, Writer
- *BBC Play of the Month* (1965), series, Novel
- *Kind Lady* (1951), Story
- *Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill* (1948), Novel
- *Little Lord Fauntleroy* (1936), Screenplay, Writer
- *Kind Lady* (1935), Story
- *Vanessa: Her Love Story* (1935), Screenplay, Novel
- *David Copperfield* (1935), as The Vicar · Adaptation — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/david-copperfield.md)

## Gallery

- ![Title: Hugh Walpole Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900)](https://film.one/media/person/1228021/gallery-ccf7fba4162a.jpg) Title: Hugh Walpole Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Hugh_Walpole_LCCN2014715367.jpg/1280px-Hugh_Walpole_LCCN2014715367.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Title: Hugh Walpole Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900)](https://film.one/media/person/1228021/gallery-c368fe03f5c7.jpg) Title: Hugh Walpole Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. (1900) — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Hugh_Walpole_LCCN2014715367_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Hugh_Walpole_LCCN2014715367_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hugh Walpole](https://film.one/media/person/1228021/gallery-0f94772b7c71.jpg) Hugh Walpole — Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Hugh_Walpole%2C_1934.jpg/1280px-Hugh_Walpole%2C_1934.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hampshire Bookshop Collection. Hugh Walpole at Brackenburn, 1929](https://film.one/media/person/1228021/gallery-fd3ec9f713cc.jpg) Hampshire Bookshop Collection. Hugh Walpole at Brackenburn, 1929 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Hugh_Walpole_at_Brackenburn%2C_1929.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Nobel Prize in Literature 1939: Nobel Prize in Literature (nominated)
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1919: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (won)

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

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