A successful Broadway playwright, Langley began writing for films in the late '30s, most notably on the musicals Maytime and The Wizard of Oz. After World War Two he entered the British film industry, working on such memorable films as Trio, Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol), Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Richard Thorpe's swashbucklers Ivanhoe and The Prisoner of Zenda. Langley began directing his own scripts in 1952 with his Dickens adaptation The Pickwick Papers; he went on to helm the sex farce Our Girl Friday (aka The Adventures of Sadie), Svengali with Donald Wolfit, and the fact-based occult drama The Search for Bridey Murphy. His later scriptwriting credits include The Vagabond King for director Michael Curtiz and Snow White and the Three Stooges.
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Snow White and the Three Stooges
Screenwriter |
1961 | |||
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The Search for Bridey Murphy
Director, Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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The Vagabond King
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Svengali
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Knights of the Round Table
Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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The Adventures of Sadie
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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Father's Doing Fine
Play Author |
1952 | |||
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Ivanhoe
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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The Pickwick Papers
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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A Christmas Carol
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Tom Brown's School Days
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Trio
Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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Adam and Evelyne
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Cardboard Cavalier
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Edward, My Son
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Quel Bandito Sono Io
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Brass Monkey
Composer (Music Score) |
1948 | |||
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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Pirates of the Seven Seas
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Unexpected Uncle
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Florian
Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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The Wizard of Oz
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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Maytime
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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The Secret of Stamboul
Screenwriter |
1936 |


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