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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were th
Walpole c. 1920–1925
Somerset Walpole, the author's father
The King's School, Canterbury
A. C. Benson, an early mentor.
David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon Charles Dickens' 1850 novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Yo
Hugh Walpole
…Chronicle series, set in the Lake District. He worked in Hollywood writing scenarios for two Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in the 1930s, and had a cameo in the 1935 film adaptation of David Copperfield. Walpole was born in Auckland, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of the Rev Somerset Walpole and his wife, Mildred Helen…
1935 US theatrical poster
Mr. Micawber (W. C. Fields) addresses young David Copperfield (Freddie Bartholomew).
Herbert Mundin, Freddie Bartholomew and Jessie Ralph in David Copperfield