Hal Carleton

{{Short description|Australian screenwriter and novelist}}

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Harold "Hal" H. Carleton (c.1896 – 25 December 1949){{cite news|date=26 December 1949|title=Mr. H. Carleton Dead|page=3|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|issue=34,949|location=New South Wales, Australia|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18140962|via=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 August 2021}} was an Australian writer. He was a friend of film director Ken G. Hall and was part of Hall's comedy writing team at Cinesound Productions in the late 1930s. He also wrote novels.Phil Taylor, 'Ken G. Hall', Cinema Papers, January 1974 p 85