Director

M.R. James

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 565348

IMDb ID: nm0416721

Known for: Writing

Born: August 1, 1862

Died: June 12, 1936

Age: 73

Place of birth: Dover, Kent, England

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2023

Years active: 73

Average TMDB rating: 6.37

Wikidata: Q963715

Also known as

Montague Rhodes James

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Short Story (25)Original Story (2)Writer (2)Story (1)

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Biography

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). James is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

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