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(1896-1975) UK screenwriter, playwright and author, active from 1919. He is best known for his hit play, the nonfantastic Journey's End (performed 9 December 1928 Apollo Theatre, London: 1929), directed by James Whale, who also directed the 1930 film version; it remains the best-known play about World War One, in which Sherriff had served 1914-1917.

He also wrote the screenplay for Whale's version of the TheInvisible Man (1933) and for him as well co-wrote (uncredited) TheBride of Frankenstein (1935).

His Scientific Romance, The Hopkins Manuscript (August 1938-March 1939 Good Housekeeping; 1939; rev vt The Cataclysm1958), is set mostly in a village in an England as World War Two it seems is about to break out; it is the home of Edgar Hopkins, whose description of events in 1939 and the years following is discovered hundreds of years later by bemused archaeologists from Addis Ababa (see Ruins and Fut R.C.

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