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William Archibald (playwright)
Trinidadian-born playwright, dancer, choreographer and director (1917 – 1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Archibald (7 March 1917 – 27 December 1970) was a Trinidadian-born playwright, dancer, choreographer and director, whose stage adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw was made into the 1961 British horror film The Innocents.
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