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Forbes, Bryan, 1926-2013

LC control no.n 80005145
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6056.O63
Personal name headingForbes, Bryan, 1926-2013
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Variant(s)Clarke, John Theobald, 1926-2013
Birth date1926-07-22
Death date2013-05-08
Place of birthWest Ham, London, England
Place of deathSurrey, England
Profession or occupationMotion picture director Motion picture actor Screenwriter Novelist
Found inHis The distant laughter, 1972.
LEXIS/NEXIS, Oct. 17, 1997: Celebrity biographies, c1997 (Forbes, Bryan; director, screenwriter, producer, actor, novelist; b. John Theobald Clarke in Stratford-at-Bow, London, England, July 22, 1926)
New York times (online), viewed May 9, 2013 (in obituary published May 8: Bryan Forbes; b. John Theobald Clarke, July 22, 1926, London; to avoid confusion with a contemporary English actor named John Clark, he adopted the name Bryan Forbes early in his career; d. at his home in Surrey, aged 86; his death was announced to European news agencies by a family spokesman, who did not say when he died; English film director best known for The Stepford wives, the 1975 Hollywood thriller about women transformed into docile electronic incarnations of themselves)
Guardian (online), viewed May 9, 2013 (Bryan Forbes; b. John Theobald Clarke, July 22, 1926, West Ham, east London; d. May 8, 2013; director, actor, screenwriter, and novelist)
Associated languageeng