Edward Guy Trice Morgan was born in Sketty, Swansea, on 6 February 1908, son of Edward Morgan, a surgeon, and his wife Mabel Trice Morgan, née Martin. He was educated at Haileybury and Oxford.
A former Fleet Street film critic, he wrote his first screenplay, The Captive Heart while a prisoner of war during World War II, and it was filmed by Ealing in 1946. He became a successful screenwriter, writing such films as Anna Karenina (1948), starring Vivien Leigh, and Eight O'Clock Walk (1954), starring Richard Attenborough. He also worked in TV, scripting War on Crime (1950), Rheingold Theatre (1954), International Detective (1959-61), No Hiding Place (1960-64), Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1964). He was one of the founders of the Screenwriters Club in London.
In 1953 he was approached by Marcus Morris to write a serial for the Eagle. He and artist Richard E. Jennings created naval adventurer Storm Nelson, and Morgan wrote the early scripts under the name Edward Trice before handing over writing duties to Jennings.
He died in the third quarter of 1964 in Uckfield, Sussex, aged 56.
References[]
- Bill Strutton, "Stars meet at new social club", The Australian Women's Weekly, 30 April 1949.
- Steve Holland, Richard Jennings, Bear Alley, 17 November 2006
- Guy Morgan on IMDB
