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name: "Jack Seddon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-seddon"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 July 1924"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T04:01:24.115183+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."
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# Jack Seddon

Writer. Born 24 July 1924 in Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 July 1924, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781250/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11121

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Longest Day*](https://film.one/film/the-longest-day.md) (68)

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## Biography

Jack Seddon (1924–2001) was a British screenwriter. Born in Lancashire, he died in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

He frequently collaborated with David Pursall. Their joint credits include the screenplay for *The Secret Partner* (1961) and several Agatha Christie adaptations starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple: *Murder She Said* (1961), *Murder Most Foul* (1964) and *Murder Ahoy* (1964). Seddon also contributed to the screenplay of *The Longest Day* (1962) and wrote *The Blue Max* (1966) with Pursall and Gerald Hanley.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Longest Day* (1962), Fi1m 68, Writer, Script Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/the-longest-day.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Tomorrow Never Comes* (1978), Screenplay, Original Story
- *Carry On England* (1976), Screenplay
- *What Changed Charley Farthing?* (1976), Screenplay
- *It's Murder. But Is It Art?* (1972), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Southern Star* (1969), Screenplay
- *The Blue Max* (1966), Writer
- *The Alphabet Murders* (1965), Screenplay
- *Murder Ahoy* (1964), Screenplay
- *Murder Most Foul* (1964), Screenplay
- *The Longest Day* (1962), Script Consultant, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-longest-day.md)
- *Kill or Cure* (1962), Screenplay, Story
- *Murder She Said* (1961), Screenplay
- *The Secret Partner* (1961), Screenplay
- *Count Five and Die* (1957), Writer

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