William Slavens McNutt
William Slavens McNutt( September 12, 1885 – January 25, 1938), was an American screenwriter.
He wrote for 28 films between 1922 and 1939.
He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions.
At the 5th Academy Awards, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for" Lady and Gent".
In 1936, he was nominated for Adapted Screenplay for the film" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".
He was born in Urbana, Illinois and died in San Fernando, California.
The Manson Family (film)
The Manson Family is an American true crime horror film.
The film covers the lives of Charles Manson and his" family" of followers.
Francis Yeats-Brown
Major Francis Charles Claypon Yeats- Brown, DFC( 15 August 1886 – 19 December 1944) was an officer in the British Indian army and the author of the memoir" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer", for which he was awarded the 1930 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Paul Wing
Paul Wing (August 14, 1892 – May 29, 1957) was an assistant director during the 1935 Academy Awards in the short lived category Best Assistant Director, for which he won for the film "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" along with Clem Beauchamp.
Wing was the assistant director on only two films owing to his service in the United States Army.
Wing also worked as a radio announcer.
Wing was also in a prisoner camp that was portrayed in the film "The Great Raid" (2005).
Henry Hathaway
Henry Hathaway (March 13, 1898 – February 11, 1985) was an American film director and producer.
He is best known as a director of Westerns, especially starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne.
He directed Gary Cooper in seven films.
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 American epic-adventure-drama film that used the title of the 1930 autobiography of the British former soldier, Francis Yeats-Brown.
The film is a Paramount picture.
Henry Hathaway directed, and the writers, who created a story that had nothing in common with Yeats-Brown's book other than the setting, included Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston and Achmed Abdullah.
The plot is the story of a group of British cavalrymen and high-ranking officers desperately trying to defend their stronghold and headquarters at Bengal against the rebellious natives during the days of the British Raj.
It stars Gary Cooper as Lieutenant Alan McGregor, Franchot Tone as Lieutenant John Forsythe, Richard Cromwell as Lieutenant Donald Stone, Guy Standing as Colonel Tom Stone and Douglass Dumbrille as the rebel leader Mohammed Khan, who utters the frequently misquoted line "
We have ways to make men talk."
Production and planning of the film began in 1931 and Paramount expected the film to be released that same year.
However, due to a film stock crisis in which most of the location footage deteriorated due to the high temperatures, the project was delayed for four years.
The motion picture was released in American cinemas in January 1935.
The film's release was met with positive reviews and good box office results.
It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Assistant Director, with other nominations including Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture.
The film grossed $49 million (2008 equivalent of $1.5 million in the 1930s) at the box office.
Historian John Reid has described the film as "one of the greatest adventure films of all time".
Storm Over Bengal
Storm Over Bengal is a 1938 adventure film that was nominated at the 11th Academy Awards for Best Score, the nomination was for Cy Feuer.
Set during the British Raj, the film's working title was "Bengal Lancer Patrol".
The film was shot in Owens Valley, California.
The film stars Patric Knowles in his first film after leaving Warner Bros. as well as Richard Cromwell and Douglass Dumbrille who played similar roles in "Lives of a Bengal Lancer".
Richard Cromwell (actor)
Richard Cromwell( born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh; –) was an American actor.
His career was at its pinnacle with his work in" Jezebel"( 1938) with Bette Davis and Henry Fonda and again with Fonda in John Ford's" Young Mr. Lincoln"( 1939).
Cromwell's fame was perhaps first assured in" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer"( 1935), sharing top billing with Gary Cooper and Franchot Tone.
That film was the first major effort directed by Henry Hathaway and it was based upon the popular novel by Francis Yeats- Brown.
" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" earned Paramount Studios a nomination for Best Picture in 1935, though" Mutiny on the Bounty" instead took the top award at the Academy Awards that year.
Leslie Halliwell in" The Filmgoer's Companion", summed up Cromwell's enduring appeal when he described him as" a leading man,[ the] gentle hero of early sound films."
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah( 12 May 1881 – 12 May 1945) was an American writer.
He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure.
He wrote screenplays for some successful films.
He was the author of the progressive Siamese drama" Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness", an Academy Award- nominated film made in 1927.
He earned an Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay to the 1935 film" The Lives of a Bengal Lancer".

Question: When did the director of film The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer (Film) die?
Answer: February 11, 1985