St. John Legh Clowes (1907–1951) was a South African writer and director.

Biography

Clowes wrote the play Dear Murderer which was turned into a film.^[1]

His parents - Captain Philip Cecil Clowes and Daphne Scholz, were married in Cape Town in 1903. (Daphne's sister Avice married actor/writer Roland Pertwee in 1911.) His grandfather, and namesake, was married to Elizabeth Caroline Bingham, the daughter of Denis Arthur Bingham, 3rd Baron Clanmorris.^[2] His paternal aunt was the writer Elinor Mordaunt.

Clowes died in London in 1951.^[3]

Select credits

• Frozen Fate (1929) – writer
• Grand Prix (1934) – writer, director
• Soldier, Sailor (1944) – writer
• Battle for Music (1945) – writer
• Dear Murderer (1947) – original play
• Things Happen at Night (1948) – producer, writer
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) – writer, director