Jeffrey Dell

{{Short description|British film director and screenwriter (1899–1985)}}

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| birth_name = John Edward Flowers Dell

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1899|5|7}}

| birth_place = Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1985|2|24|1899|5|7}}

| death_place = Haslemere, Surrey, England

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| occupation = Director, screenwriter

| years_active= 1932–1966

| spouse = {{plainlist|

• {{marriage|Brenda Callum|1924|1933|reason=div.}} (one son)
• {{marriage|Eileen Weatherstone|1934|1934|reason=div.}}
• {{marriage|Jill Craigie|1938|1948|reason=div.}}
• {{marriage|Barbara Poxon|1948}} (two daughters)

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| children = 3

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John Edward Flowers "Jeffrey" Dell (7 May 1899 – 24 February 1985) was a British writer, screenwriter, and film director.{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13265 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | DELL, Jeffrey |access-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222083701/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13265 |archive-date=22 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite book |last=Nelmes |first=Jill |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_Screenwriter_in_British_Cinema/SGr8DwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Jeffrey+Dell+director&pg=PT21&printsec=frontcover |title=The Screenwriter in British Cinema |date=2019-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83902-047-6 |language=en}} He is also remembered for his 1939 novel Nobody Ordered Wolves, a satire on the British film industry. His other novels include News for Heaven (1944){{Cite book |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_New_Statesman_and_Nation/ce9hSAolfjwC?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Jeffrey+Dell+News+for+Heaven&dq=Jeffrey+Dell+News+for+Heaven&printsec=frontcover |title=The New Statesman and Nation |date=1954 |publisher=Statesman and Nation Publishing Company, Limited |language=en}} and The Hoffmann Episode (1954).{{Cite book |last=Hubin |first=Allen J. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/Crime_Fiction_1749_1980/c1AWAQAAIAAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&bsq=Jeffrey+Dell+The+Hoffmann+Episode+(1954)&dq=Jeffrey+Dell+The+Hoffmann+Episode+(1954)&printsec=frontcover |title=Crime Fiction, 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography |date=1984 |publisher=Garland Pub. |isbn=978-0-8240-9219-1 |language=en}} He co-wrote the 1937 play Blondie White, later adapted into a Hollywood film.{{Cite book |last=Wearing |first=J. P. |url=https://www.google.pt/books/edition/The_London_Stage_1930_1939/Z2mYAwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=Jeffrey+Dell+blondie&pg=PA633&printsec=frontcover |title=The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel |date=2014-05-15 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-9304-7 |language=en}} Dell was the son of John Edward Dell (1875–1936) and Gertrude Dell (née Flowers; 1874–1947).