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Vernon Harris

Vernon Harris (26 February 1905 – February 1999) was a British screenwriter. He often worked with the film director Lewis Gilbert who said:

[Harris] worked with me in some way on almost every film I did over nearly forty years. In those early days, we very often did the complete screenplay together. Vernon’s real strength was as a script editor. We would lay out the scenario together and we would then usually depend upon a dialogue writer to supply the dialogue.

Harris was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his script for film ''Oliver!'' (1968).

Harris was born in Folkestone. He worked extensively for radio at the BBC, notably on ''PC49'' and ''Band Waggon''. He died in Surrey. Provided by Wikipedia