Biography

Earl Felton was born on October 16, 1909 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Happy Time (1952) and Bengal Tiger (1936). He died on May 2, 1972 in Studio City, California, USA.

Felton was allegedly a participant in the notorious Profumo Affair. In 1962, an FBI memo written by J. Edgar Hoover stated that Felton had taken part in sex orgies that involved Christine Keeler, Mandy Rice-Davies, Mariella Novotny, Douglas Fairbanks, Lord Astor, Eugene Ivanov, John Profumo and Stephen Ward. In her autobiography, "The Truth at Last" (2001) Christine Keeler claimed that Felton was working for the CIA. Keeler also claimed that Stephen Ward was providing "confidential information" to Felton.

Both legs were crippled by a childhood case of polio. However, he refused to use a wheelchair and learned to get around using crutches or canes.

American screenwriter, educated at the University of Minnesota. Noted for his collaborations on films with the director Richard Fleischer.

[referring to his childhood when his mother took him to revival meetings in search of a cure for his polio] Dragging myself up to the pulpit was embarrassing enough. It was the crawling back down the aisle that was so humiliating.