R. C. Sherriff

Robert Cedric Sherriff (6 June 1896– 13 November 1975) was an English playwright and screenwriter.

Sherriff was born in Hampton Wick, Middlesex, and educated at Kingston Grammar School. He worked in an insurance office before and after serving as a captain in the East Surrey Regiment in World War I. His play Journey's End, based on his experiences in the war, was produced at the Apollo Theatre, London, directed by James Whale and with the young Laurence Olivier in the lead role; it then began a long run at the Savoy. Sherriff later studied briefly at New College, Oxford before being asked by Whale to write the screenplay for The Invisible Man.

His other plays include:

• Badger's Green (1930)
• Windfall (1933)
• St. Helena (1935) cowritten with Jeanne de Casalis
• Miss Mabel (1948)
• Home at Seven (1950)
• The White Carnation (1953)
• The Long Sunset (1955)
• The Telescope (1957)

His screenplays include:

• The Invisible Man (1933) based on the novel by H.G. Wells
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1933), nominated along with Eric Maschwitz and Claudine West for an Academy award for writing, adapted screenplay, based on the novel by James Hilton
• The Four feathers (1938)
• Lady Hamilton (1941)
• Odd Man Out (1945)
• Quartet (1948)
• No Highway (1950)
• The Dam busters (1955), nominated for a best British screenplay BAFTA award
• The Night My Number Came Up (1955), nominated for a best British screenplay BAFTA award