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Distinguished English novelist and playwright who wrote a number of screenplays and had several of his works adapted for the screen, most notably "The Third Man" (1949). Greene divided his books into what he labeled "entertainments" (mostly psychological thrillers such as "This Gun For Hire", "The Confidential Agent" and "Our Man in Havana") and "novels" (works dealing with moral, religious or political themes, such as "Brighton Rock", "The Power and the Glory", "The Heart of the Matter" and "The Quiet American")....
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Filmography

The Heart of the Matter - ( Source Material / / Announced / )
The Quiet American - ( Source Material / 2002 / Released / Miramax Records )
Double Take - ( Novel as Source Material(- from novella) / 2001 / Released / )
The End of the Affair - ( Novel as Source Material / 1999 / Released / )
The Third Man - ( Screenplay / 1999 / Released / )
The Third Man - ( From Story / 1999 / Released / )
Strike It Rich - ( Novel as Source Material(- from novella) / 1990 / Released / )
Beyond the Limit - ( Novel as Source Material / 1983 / Released / )
The Human Factor - ( Novel as Source Material / 1980 / Released / )
Day For Night - ( the English Insurance Broker / 1973 / Released / )
England Made Me - ( Novel as Source Material / 1973 / Released / Hemdale Ginnane )
Travels With My Aunt - ( Source Material / 1972 / Released / )
The Comedians - ( Screenplay / 1967 / Released / )
The Comedians - ( Novel as Source Material / 1967 / Released / )
Our Man in Havana - ( Screenplay / 1960 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
Our Man in Havana - ( Novel as Source Material / 1960 / Released / Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group )
The Quiet American - ( Novel as Source Material / 1958 / Released / )
Across the Bridge - ( Novel as Source Material / 1957 / Released / )
Saint Joan - ( Screenplay / 1957 / Released / )
Short Cut to Hell - ( Novel as Source Material / 1957 / Released / )
The End of the Affair - ( Novel as Source Material / 1954 / Released / )
The Heart of the Matter - ( Novel as Source Material / 1953 / Released / British Lion Productions )
The Fallen Idol - ( Screenplay / 1948 / Released / )
The Fallen Idol - ( Story By / 1948 / Released / )
Brighton Rock - ( Screenplay / 1947 / Released / )
Brighton Rock - ( Novel as Source Material / 1947 / Released / )
This Gun For Hire - ( Novel as Source Material / 1942 / Released / Paramount Pictures )

TV Credits
This Gun For Hire ( 1991 / Released ): Novel as Source Material
Graham Greene's "The Tenth Man" ( 1988 / Released ): Novel as Source Material
Monsignor Quixote ( 1987 / Released ): Novel as Source Material
Doctor Fischer of Geneva ( 1985 / Released ): Novel as Source Material
The Potting Shed ( 1982 / Released ): Play as Source Material

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Distinguished English novelist and playwright who wrote a number of screenplays and had several of his works adapted for the screen, most notably "The Third Man" (1949). Greene divided his books into what he labeled "entertainments" (mostly psychological thrillers such as "This Gun For Hire", "The Confidential Agent" and "Our Man in Havana") and "novels" (works dealing with moral, religious or political themes, such as "Brighton Rock", "The Power and the Glory", "The Heart of the Matter" and "The Quiet American"). Greene consistently expressed dissatisfaction with filmed versions of his work ("I hate the adaptations of my books") with the exception of two Carol Reed films for which he wrote his own screenplays: "The Fallen Idol" (1949), based on Greene's short story "The Basement Room", and "The Third Man" (1949).

Profession(s):
novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film critic
Sometimes Credited As:
Henry Graham Greene
Henry Greene
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Family
brother:Hugh Greene (served as Director General of the BBC)
brother:Raymond Greene
daughter:Lucy Caroline Greene (born in December 1933; mother, Vivien Dayrell-Browning)
father:Charles Henry Greene (headmaster of Berkhamsted School which son attended; married his cousin)
mother:Marion Raymond Greene (cousin to husband; distantly related to Robert Louis Stevenson)
son:Francis Greene (born in September 1936; mother Vivien Dayrell-Browning; literary executor of his father's estate)
wife:Vivien Dayrell-Browning (born c. 1906; met in 1925; Greene converted to Catholicism because she had previously converted to the religion; married in October 1927; separated in 1948 but never divorced)
Companion(s)
Anita Bjork , Companion , ```..Swedish; had lengthy affair in the 1950s; resentment of relationship in cultural circles may have cost Greene the Nobel Prize
Yvonne Cloetta , Companion , ```..dedicated last novel, "The Captain and the Enemy", to her


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Education
Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
Balliol College, Oxford University Oxford, England BA 1925
Awards (Back to top)

National Board of Review Best Screenplay "The Fallen Idol" 1949
Venice Film Festival Best Story and Screenplay Award "The Fallen Idol" 1948
Hawthendorn Prize "The Power and the Glory" 1941

Milestones (Back to top)

1967 Final film script, "The Comedians"
1960 Reunited with Carol Reed for "Our Man in Havana"
1957 Penned screenplay for Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan"
1954 Worked as correspondent in Vietnam for The New Republic
1949 Wrote perhaps best-known film "The Third Man", adapted from his story; directed by Carol Reed
1947 Penned the script for "Brighton Rock", based on his novel
1943 Returned to London; later transferred to Portugal where he reported to Kim Philby
1941 Assigned to work in Sierra Leone (December)
1937 First screenplay, "21 Days" (filmed 1937; release delayed until 1940)
1926 Converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism (February)
1926 - 1930 Worked as copy editor at the London Times
1925 Worked at the Nottingham Journal
Suffered a nervous collapse while at Berkhamsted School as a result of persecution by two classmates
Wrote first novel "The Man Within" (1929) while working at the Times
Left the Times to become film critic , first for periodical, Night and Day and later for The Spectator; began writing "entertainments" during this period
Worked for the British Ministry of Information during WWII

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