Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
September 17, 1907
Died
January 22, 1972 (64 years old)
Melbourne, Australia
Alec Coppel
Biography
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.
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Known For
Writing
Joe: The Busybody
Theatre Play
1971
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Screenplay, Theatre Play
1968
Moment to Moment
Screenplay, Story
1966
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Writer
1962
The Gazebo
Novel
1960
Vertigo
Screenplay
1958
Appointment with a Shadow
Screenplay
1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Story
1955
The Captain's Paradise
Screenplay, Story
1953
No Highway in the Sky
Writer
1951
Obsession
Novel, Screenplay, Dialogue
1949