Cousin of poet and novelist Lucy Beatrice Malleson, who wrote under the pseudonyms Anthony Gilbert, Lucy Egerton, Sylvia Denys Hooke, J. Kilmeny Keith, and Anne Meredith.
On the advisory council of the Masses Stage and Film Guild established by the Independent Labour Party in 1929 to bring plays and films of an international character to working-class audiences.
Retired from acting due to failing eyesight.
Stubby, meek-looking British character actor/writer with small, puckered mouth and hook nose in scores of films, some of which he wrote, usually appearing in small, unobtrusive parts.
Was going to star as Dr. Roney in Quatermass And The Pit (BBC) but was replaced by Cec Linder.
Was the first chairman of the Screen Writers' Association (1937), predecessor of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.