A.P. Herbert

A.P. Herbert was born on Sep 24, 1890 in UK. A.P. Herbert's big-screen debut came with The Battle of Gallipoli directed by Anthony Asquith in 1931. A.P. Herbert is known for House by the River directed by Fritz Lang, Louis Hayward stars as Stephen Byrne and Lee Bowman as John Byrne. The upcoming new movie A.P. Herbert plays is The Duke which will be released on Feb 25, 2022.

English novelist and essayist Alan Patrick Herbert was born in London, England, in 1890. An Oxford graduate, he served in the Royal Navy in World War I and took part in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign in Turkey, which resulted in heavy casualties and a resounding defeat for the Allied forces. He later fought in France, where he was so severely wounded that he received a medical discharge. He was admitted to the bar in 1918, and served for two years as a private secretary to a member of the British Parliament. In 1924 he became a staff writer for "Punch" magazine--to which he had been a contributing writer since 1910--and in 1935 he was elected to the British Parliament as an Independent representing Oxford. His best-known novels are probably "The House by the River" and "The Water Gipsies", both of which were turned into successful films.