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British playwright Ben Travers made his London debut with the 1922 comedy Dipped. Travers went on to write virtually all of the fabled Aldwych Theatre farces of the 1920s and 1930s. These delightful efforts were then committed to film, with the original cast members -- and the original laughs -- intact. Travers' most famous efforts include Rookery Nook, A Cuckoo in the Nest, Thark, A Cup of Kindness, and Banana Ridge. He also occasionally adapted the works of others to the screen, notably Sheridan LeFanu's The Inheritance (aka Uncle Silas). Having served with the Royal Naval Air Service during WWI, Travers interrupted his career in 1939 to join the RAF, retiring in 1943 with the rank of squadron leader. Ben Travers was honored in 1977 with the Certificate of the British Empire.