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- Birth nameCharles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle
- James Clavell was born on October 10, 1921, in Sydney, New South Wales, as Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell. He was a film and TV writer and producer. During World War II, he was a British soldier and a Japanese prisoner on Java and in Singapore, which led to his great interest in things East Asian and Japanese, and the experiences of prisoners of war. Clavell is very well-known for "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Satan Bug" (1965), "King Rat" (1965), "To Sir, with Love" (1967), "Tai-Pan" (1986), "Noble House" (1988), and especially "Shogun" (1980). Shogun won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV-Series - Drama and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series: James Clavell (executive producer).
Clavell was married to April Stride, and they were parents of two children. He died on September 7, 1994, in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dale A. Wood
- SpouseApril Stride(February 26, 1949 - September 7, 1994) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- ParentsRichard ClavellEileen Collis Clavell
- During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Artillery. Aged eighteen, he was captured by the Japanese on the island of Java in 1942, and subsequently imprisoned in the notorious Changi jail. Changi became the setting of his first novel, "King Rat".
- Was paid the record sum of $5 million for his novel "Whirlwind", by the publishing house William Morrow & Company in 1986.
- He was injured in a motorcycle accident after his return to England following the war. His injuries caused lameness in one leg.
- Lived in West Vancouver, Canada for a short time while he wrote a novel.
- Became an American citizen in 1963.
- I'm not a novelist, but a storyteller. I'm not a literary figure at all.
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