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- Birth nameWilliam Scott Darling
- Scott Darling was born on May 28, 1898 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer and director, known for The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Telephone Operator (1937) and Born to Speed (1947). He was married to Eleanor Fried. He died on October 29, 1951 in California, USA.
- SpouseEleanor Fried (1 child)
- Found floating in the Pacific Ocean.
- Educated in Scotland, Darling moved to the U.S. around WWI and landed work as a freelance writer, occasionally working for newspapers. He moved to Hollywood in 1918 and became a scenario writer for Christie Studios. He gradually gained a reputation as something of an extremely prolific hack screen writer. By the 1940's he was largely employed by Universal and today is blamed by film buffs for scripting several of the worst Laurel and Hardy features.
- Daughter: writer Gretchen Darling.
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