Edmond Seward

Who was Edmond Seward?

Edmond Seward was a Hollywood screenwriter who had originally attended Northwestern University and worked as a journalist, before doing some writing for Disney.

During the mid-1930s he was brought out to Australia by director Ken G. Hall, to write movies and train Australian screenwriters for Cinesound Productions.

"We hired him at one hundred pounds a week as a writer and he laughed at it, but he said he would like a trip to the South Seas, and he came for one hundred pounds a week and brought his wife," said Hall. "He didn't know all that much as it turned out."

Seward ended up writing two films for Cinesound, Thoroughbred and Orphan of the Wilderness, as well as adapting Thoroughbred into a novel. He soon returned to Hollywood, with Hall claiming the writer "had not been a bell-ringing success". Hall thought Seward may have been responsible for plagiarising the end of Thoroughbred from the Frank Capra movie, Broadway Bill.

Seward later worked for Screen Gems and wrote a number of scripts for the Bowery Boys.