Frank Vosper

Frank Vosper was an English actor, playwright and screenwriter who worked in both theater and film. He was born in Greater London and died in 1937. His stage career started in 1919, and he became known for playing suave villains. Over many years on stage he acted in Love from a Stranger (1936), a play he wrote himself from Agatha Christie's short story Philomel Cottage. His other plays included The Combined Maze (1927) and Murder on the Second Floor (1929), which he later reworked as a novel. He wrote People Like Us, a play that was banned after a Strand Theatre performance and not staged again until 1948 at Wyndham's Theatre. With Victor Hanbury he co-wrote the comedy No Funny Business (1933). He also co-wrote Debonair, based on G.B. Stern's novel, with Stern; it opened at the Lyric in April 1930.