- Worked in a tin mine, on a rubber plantation, as a gold prospector, as a bartender and as a professional bridge player before writing. The first Saint book, written when he was 20 years old, was his third book and the only one of his first five novels to feature the Saint. Wrote nearly a hundred Saint adventures in total, wrote the scripts for thirteen years of globally syndicated Saint comic strips, successful Hollywood scriptwriter and script medic. Spent much of his life travelling but settled for long periods in Hollywood, Florida and finally in Surrey, England, UK
- IMDb mini biography by: Ian Dickerson <IDickerson@AOL.com>
- SpousesAudrey Long(1952 - April 15, 1993) (his death)Elizabeth Borst(1943 - 1951) (divorced)Barbara Meyer(1938 - 1943) (divorced)Pauline Schishkin(1931 - 1937) (divorced, 1 child)
- Was a passenger on the Zeppelin "Hindenburg" in its inaugural year of 1936 (its disastrous fire was in 1937).
- Gained US citizenship in 1946.
- Charteris's papers are in a collection held by Boston University. This collection includes manuscripts for the only two unpublished "Saint" novels: "Bet on the Saint," which was written by Fleming Lee and Leslie Charteris, and "The Saint's Lady," a manuscript written by Joy Martin and submitted to Charteris.
- Chinese-English crime novelist, creator of "The Saint".
- [on his choice of 'Templar' as the surname for his detective "The Saint"] Ah, there came a truly romantic fetish. My first, even pre-adolescent, idols were the giants of the legends of chivalry. The Knights of the Round Table--the Chevalier Bayard, Roland and Oliver, D'Artagnan as interpreted by Douglas Fairbanks. The age of the glorified goon had not yet dawned, thank Heavens, at least in time to influence me. My paladin had to have a symbolic name, something with a hint of swords and plumes and trumpets in it. Templar, to me, was such a name.
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