Howard Clewes (27 October 1912 – 29 January 1988) was an English screenwriter and novelist. He wrote for eight films between 1951 and 1974. He also wrote twenty action novels from 1938 to 1979.^[1] He was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Screenplay in 1960 for The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.

He was born in York, England. In 1946, he married Renata Faccincani della Torre, a wartime resistance fighter. She was an active (uncredited) editor in his literary and screenwriting projects.^[1]

• Green Grow the Rushes (1951), based on his 1949 novel of the same name
• The Long Memory (1953), based on his 1951 novel of the same name
• The Steel Bayonet (1957)
• The One That Got Away (1957)
• The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
• Up from the Beach (1965)
• That Man in Istanbul (1965)
• The Three Musketeers (1974)

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• Sailor Comes Home (1938)
• Dead Ground (1946)
• The Unforgiven (1947)
• Thus am I Slayn (1948)
• The Mask Of Wisdom (1949)
• Green Grow the Rushes (1949)
• The Long Memory (1951)
• An Epitaph For Love (1953)
• The Way The Wind Blows (1954)
• Man On A Horse (1964)
• The Libertines (1966)
• I, The King (1979)

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Image in the sun (1955)

• Howard Clewes at IMDb

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