Warren Chetham-Strode
{{Short description|British writer (1896–1974)}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Warren Chetnam-Strode
|post-nominals = MC
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|1|28|df=y}}
|birth_place = Henley{{Cite web|url=http://www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk/memorial/WW1/chetham-strode.htm|title=Clifton RFC History - WW1 - Warren Chetham-Strode|website=www.cliftonrfchistory.co.uk}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|4|26|1896|1|28|df=y}}
|death_place = Playden, East Sussex
|occupation = {{Flatlist|
- Author
- playwright
}}
| spouse = Moira Verschoyle
| children = 1
|years_active = 1935–1974
}}
Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode, MC (28 January 1896 – 26 April 1974) was an English author and playwright. He wrote several plays, including the West End hit The Guinea Pig (1946), which was turned into a film in 1948.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mreCBAAAQBAJ&q=the+guinea+pig+london+stage+1940-1949&pg=PA222|title=The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel|first=J. P.|last=Wearing|date=22 August 2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810893061}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-guinea-pig-v94005|title=The Guinea Pig (1948) - John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related|website=AllMovie}} He also wrote screenplays for several films between 1935 and 1951, including Odette (1950).{{cite news |title=Obituary: Mr. Warren Chetham-Strode |work=The Times |page=16 |date= 27 April 1974}}
Early life
He was educated at Sherborne School. During World War I, he was commissioned into the Border Regiment. As a lieutenant, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1916.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29837/supplements/11533 London Gazette issue 29837] {{dead link|date=April 2023}} His elder brother Edward Randall Chetham-Strode was killed in action in 1917.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1628637|title=Casualty|website=www.cwgc.org}}
Career
He wrote his first play, Abdul the Dammed, in 1935. He later wrote the BBC Radio series The Barlowes of Beddington, which ran from 1955 to 1959. 'The story of a public school seen through the eyes of a Headmaster and his Wife'. Patrick Barr played Robert Barlowe the headmaster and Pauline Jameson, Kate, his wife.{{Cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3e6dd5a4c32e4791bd2d18506f41b87f|title=Patrick Barr and Pauline Jameson in * THE BARLOWES OF BEDDINGTON'|date=31 January 1955|issue=1629|page=19|via=BBC Genome}} Evans, the Head Boy, was Edward Hardwicke, John Charlesworth was Finlay, Barry McGregor was Shepherd and boys in the background were pupils from Barking Abbey School. Geoffrey Wincott played Dogget, the School Porter and Anthony Shaw was the Governor, General Naseby.
Personal life
He was married on 16 July 1927 to the writer Moira Verschoyle, with whom he had one son, Michael Edward Chetham-Strode.{{cite book|title=Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland|date= 1976|pages=1166}}
Selected plays
- The Day Is Gone (1938)
- Young Mrs. Barrington (1945)
- The Guinea Pig (1946)
- Background (1950)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0834752|Warren Chetham-Strode}}
- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp68768/warren-chetham-strode Warren Chetham-Strode] at National Portrait Gallery
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Category:Recipients of the Military Cross
Category:Border Regiment officers
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:People educated at Sherborne School
Category:English male dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century English male writers
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