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C. S. Forester

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 23

TMDB ID: 6595

IMDb ID: nm0286163

Known for: Writing

Born: August 27, 1899

Died: April 2, 1966

Age: 66

Place of birth: Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt [now Egypt]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1932 - 2020

Years active: 89

Average TMDB rating: 7.1

Wikidata: Q430182

Also known as

Cecil Louis Troughton Smith • Cecil Scott Forester • C.S. Forester • CS Forester

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Biography

Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 — 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours were jointly awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Description above from the Wikipedia article C. S. Forester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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