Talk:R. C. Sherriff/Sources

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 * full name: Robert Cedric Sherriff. [35] [38]
 * year born: 1896. [38]
 * date of birth: 1896-06-06. [38]
 * year died: 1975. [38]
 * date of death: 1975-11-13. [38]
 * English
 * (writer )
 * playwright and scriptwriter ???
 * best known for his play Journey's End ???

Infobox

 * full name: (sourced elsewhere)
 * date of birth: (sourced elsewhere)
 * date of death: (sourced elsewhere)
 * location of death: ???
 * playwright and scriptwriter ???
 * British ???
 * Writing period: 1929 - 1968
 * Notable work(s): ???

Early life

 * location of birth?
 * Kingston upon Thames.
 * Hampton Wick, Middlesex. [35]
 * Hampton Wick, Surrey, England. [38]
 * Esher, Surrey. [35]


 * parents:
 * He was the only child of Herbert Hankin Sherriff, insurance clerk, and his wife, Constance, daughter of Charles Winder, of Iver, Buckinghamshire. ???


 * education:
 * Kingston Grammar School.
 * Grammar school at Kingston on Thames. [38]


 * working in insurance before WW1 [38]
 * as claims adjuster in 1914


 * working in insurance after WW1
 * 1918 to 1928.
 * as insurance adjuster 1918-1928
 * as claims adjuster 1918-28
 * at Sun Insurance Company, London


 * served in WW1 [38]
 * 1915 to 1918,
 * as captain,  [38]
 * in the East Surrey Regiment,
 * 9th.
 * sered at Vimy and Loos ???
 * wounded at Passchendaele.
 * (Ypres)
 * severely ???
 * 1979 ???
 * decorated with Military Cross during the war ???

Early plays

 * first play to help Kingston Rowing Club raise money to buy a new boat.
 * Journey's End:
 * seventh play.
 * written: 1928
 * published: 1929
 * 1st 2 performances:
 * 1st 1928-12-09
 * Apollo Theatre.
 * directed by James Whale.
 * Laurence Olivier in the lead role,
 * who was then 21 years old.
 * 1st performance
 * 2nd performance
 * Maurice Brown in audience for possibly the 1st perf..
 * Browne produced it at Savoy,
 * from 1929,
 * where it ran for 2 years.


 * New College, Oxford.
 * 1931 to 1934
 * fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries.

Award nominations
Oscar nom. for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, BAFTA noms for The Dam Busters and The Night My Number Came Up.