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Alec Coppel (17 September 1907 – 22 January 1972) was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent most of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo(1958), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Mr Denning Drives North (1951) and Obsession (1949), and the plays I Killed the Count and The Gazebo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alec Coppel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2019
Jo
Movie Author
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1990
Unfinished Crime
Movie Original Story
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1971
Jo
Movie Theatre Play
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Writer
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1968
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Moment to Moment
Movie Screenplay
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1963
The Laughing Crime
Movie Original Story
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1962
The Swordsman of Siena
Movie Screenplay
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Writer
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1959
The Gazebo
Movie Novel
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1958
Vertigo
Movie Screenplay
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1957
Alcoa Theatre
TV show Story
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1957
Appointment with a Shadow
Movie Screenplay
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1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Story
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1954
The Black Knight
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Hell Below Zero
Movie Screenplay
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1953
The Captain's Paradise
Movie Story
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1951
Mr. Denning Drives North
Movie Novel
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1951
Two on the Tiles
Movie Writer
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1951
No Highway in the Sky
Movie Writer
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1951
Smart Alec
Movie Writer
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1949
Obsession
Movie Novel
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1948
Brass Monkey
Movie Screenplay
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1948
Woman Hater
Movie Story
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1939
Just like a Woman
Movie Writer
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1939
Over the Moon
Movie Writer
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1939
I Killed the Count
Movie Theatre Play