Angus MacPhail

Angus MacPhail was born on Apr 08, 1903 in UK. Angus MacPhail's big-screen debut came with Balaclava directed by Maurice Elvey in 1928. Angus MacPhail is known for The Wrong Man directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Henry Fonda stars as Christopher Emanuel 'Manny' Balestrero and Vera Miles as Rose Balestrero. The upcoming new movie Angus MacPhail plays is Whisky Galore which will be released on May 12, 2017.

London-born Angus MacPhail worked as a screenwriter for many years with producer Michael Balcon, but he wrote for many of Britain's most prestigious studios, such as Gainsborugh, Gaumont-British and Ealing. He is probably best known for his script for the classic British feature Dead of Night (1945), but also worked for Alfred Hitchcock, writing The Wrong Man (1956). MacPhail had a reputation as one of the British film industry's best collaborators and "script doctors", and in fact of his 23 scripts for Ealing Studios, he had sole credit on only one.