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Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell

Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell

Male 1921 - 1994  (72 years)    Has one ancestor and 3 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell 
    Birth 10 Oct 1921  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 7 Sep 1994  Vevey, Vaud, Confoederatio Helvetica Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I480695  Geneagraphie
    Links To This person is also James Clavell at IMBd 
    Last Modified 20 Jun 2022 

    Father Captain Sir Richard DuMaresq de Clavelle   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F192111  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 April Stride 
    Children 
     1. Richard Clavell
     2. Eileen Collis Clavell
    Family ID F184907  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Jun 2022 

    Family 2 Caroline Barrett,   b. 16 Apr 1942, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
    Family ID F192107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 11 Jul 2004 

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  • Notes 
    • Was commissioned into the British Royal Artillery at the outbreak of World War II, then spent most of the war in a Japanese POW camp. After the cessation of hostilities, Clavell overcame his bitterness by cultivating a fascination in the history and culture of Japan. Moving to the U.S. in 1953 to work on a TV project, Clavell launched his screenwriting career with the sci-fi masterwork The Fly (1958). With 1959's Five Gates to Hell, Clavell added producing and directing to his accomplishments; his biggest box-office hit as director was 1967's To Sir With Love. James Clavell's best-selling 1975 novel Shogun, a story of the first intervention by Caucasians into feudal Japan, was transformed four years later into one of the most popular TV miniseries ever produced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

      His nephew, John Hime Byrd, is an independent filmmaker living in Wisconsin.

      Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:
      Although most Americans instantly know Clavell as the author of such historically based bestsellers as "Tai-Pan" and "Shogun," few realize that he was a filmmaker before he was a novelist. The son of a British Royal Navy Captain, Clavell served in the Royal Artillery during World War 2 and was a P.O.W. for three years in Singapore. After the war-and an accident which ended his military career-he became interested in films and eventually emigrated to the U.S. in 1953. His early credits as screenwriter include the sci-fi classic The Fly (1958) and the King Solomon's Mines sequel Watusi (1959). He later cowrote The Great Escape (1963), 633 Squadron (1964), and the fine thriller The Satan Bug (1965). Clavell made his debut as director-writerproducer with the negligible Five Gates to Hell (1959). He showed more promise as a triple-hyphenate on the unusual Western Walk Like a Dragon (1960) and achieved enduring fame for the irresistible To Sir With Love (1967), with Sidney Poitier as a teacher winning over students in a rough East End London school. He also directed Where's Jack? (1969, about British highwayman Jack Sheppard) and the epic The Last Valley (1971, which he also wrote and produced). His first novel, "King Rat"-written during a Hollywood writers' strike-was published in 1962 and made into a film three years later by Bryan Forbes. "Tai-Pan" was filmed in 1986, while "Shogun" and "Noble House" became successful TV miniseries in 1980 and 1988, respectively.



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