The commander, described by Clavell years later as a "total twit", insisted that they be dropped off at the nearest port to fight the war despite having no weapons. The ship taking his unit was sunk en route to Singapore, and the survivors were picked up by a Dutch boat fleeing to India. Though trained for desert warfare, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 he was sent to Singapore to fight the Japanese. In 1940, Clavell joined the Royal Artillery. Clavell was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School. Richard Clavell was posted back to England when James was nine months old. He directed the popular 1967 film To Sir, with Love for which he also wrote the script.īorn in Australia, Clavell was the son of Commander Richard Charles Clavell, a Royal Navy officer who was stationed in Australia with the Royal Australian Navy from 1920 to 1922. Clavell also wrote such screenplays as those for The Fly (1958) (based on the short story by George Langelaan) and The Great Escape (1963) (based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill). Clavell is best known as the author of his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television adaptations. James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994 ) was an Australian-born British (later naturalized American) writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.
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