Film, TV & Radio
Terence Rattigan’s Films
Taken from Michael Darlow’s biography, ‘Terence Rattigan, The man and His Work’
Early in his career Rattigan contributed to numerous screenplays, uncredited. The following are the principal films he scripted once he became well known:
French Without Tears, 1939
Director: Anthony Asquith
Quiet Wedding (with Anatole de Grunwald), 1940
Director: Anthony Asquith
The Day Will Dawn (US: The Avengers) with Anatole de Grunwald and Patrick Kirwan), 1942
Director: Harold French
Uncensored (with Wolfgang Wilhelm and Rodney Ackland), 1942.
Director: Anthony Asquith
English Without Tears (US: Her Man Gilbey) with Anatole de Grunwald, 1944
Director: Anthony Asquith
Journey Together, 1945
Director: John Boulting
The Way to the Stars (US: Johnny in the Clouds) with Anatole de Grunwald, 1945.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Brighton Rock (with Graham Greene), 1947
Director: John Boulting
While the Sun Shines (with Anatole de Grunwald), 1947
Director: Anthony Asquith
Bond Street (with Anatole de Grunwald and Rodney Ackland), 1948
Director: Gordon Parry
The Winslow Boy (with Anatole de Grunwald) 1948.
Director: Anthony Asquith
The Browning Version, 1951. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay.
Director: Anthony Asquith
The Sound Barrier (US: Breaking the Sound Barrier), 1952
Director: David Lean
The Final Test, 1953
Director: Anthony Asquith
The Man Who Loved Redheads, 1954.
Director: Harold French
The Deep Blue Sea, 1955.
Director: Anatole Litvak
The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957
Director: Laurence Olivier
Separate Tables (with John Gay), 1958
Director: Delbert Mann
The VIPs, 1963
Director: Anthony Asquith
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, 1964
Director: Anthony Asquith
Goodbye, Mr Chips, 1969
Director: Herbert Ross
Bequest to the Nation, 1973
Director: James Cellan-Jones
Terence Rattigan’s original television scripts
Taken from Michael Darlow’s biography, ‘Terence Rattigan, The man and His Work’
The Final Test
First transmission BBC, 29thJuly 1951
Director: Royston Morley
Heart to Heart
First transmission BBC, 6thDec. 1962
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Ninety Years On
First transmission BBC, 29thNov. 1964
Producer: Michael Mills
Nelson – A Portrait in Miniature
First transmission ATV, 21stMarch 1966.
Director: Stuart Burge
All on Her Own
First transmission BBC 2, 25th September, 1968
Director: Hal Burton
High Summer (adapted from earlier, unperformed stage play)
First transmission, Thames Television, 1972
Director: Peter Duguid.
Terence Rattigan’s Radio Script
Cause Celebre, first broadcast, BBC Radio 4, 27th October 1975. Producer: Norman Wright.
Principal Unperformed Works
Texts held in The Rattigan Papers at The British Library
STAGE
Integer Vitae (The Pure in Heart) 1927
Black Forest, 1935
Two Dozen Roses, adapted from a play by Aldo Benetii, 1939
La Valet Maitre, adapted from a play by Paul Armont and Leopold Marchand, 1939
Like Father, 1960
Pas de Deux, 1968
FILMS
O Mistress Mine adapted from Love In Idleness, 1949
Crime Wave, 1946
World Premiere, 1947
Burke and Wills, 1969
TELEVISION
Nijinsky, 1974.
