John Dighton was a playwright - screenwriter from 1932, including work
for Michael Balcon at Gaumont-British.
To Ealing in 1939 for a dozen year, of collaborative projects. Dighton's
1940s output included comedian Will Hay's
last starring features, as well as the 1947 adaptation of Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby (1947).
Most gainfully employed by Ealing Studios, he collaborated on the screenplays
of such sublime comedies as Kind
Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The
Man in the White Suit (1951), sharing an Academy Award nomination
for the latter. He earned a second nomination for the American-financed
Roman Holiday (1953). Two of his more popular stage plays, Happiest Days of Your Life
(1950) and Who
Goes There? (1952), were successfully adapted for the screen by
Dighton himself. John Dighton's final screen credit was his cinema adaptation
of Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (1959).
