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Leslie Turner White
Leslie Turner White (12 May 1903 - June 12, 1967) was a Canadian-born U.S. screenwriter and author. Born in Ottawa, Canada to George Whitfield White and Sarah Tupper Turner, he began her career as a ranger, working in a sheriff’s department and police department and then as an investigator in the Los Angeles County (CA) District Attorney’s office. A prolific writer, his experiences in the police force formed the basis of many of books, stories and screenplays. A number of his stories and novels were made into Hollywood films, including The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) starring Boris Karloff and Northern Pursuit (1943) starring Errol Flynn. His 1937 novel Harness Bull was turned into the episode Vice Squad (1957) which featured on the TV series Lux Video Theatre. His original screenplays include The Unwritten Code (1944) and Behind Prison Gates (1939). Amongst his best-known novels are Lord Johnnie (1949), which tells the story of a knave and scoundrel who falls for a “lady of quality,” Magnus The Magnificent (1950), about a rover and adventurer, and 5,000 Trojan Horses (1943), a story set in World War Two surrounding the engines of a 5,000-horse-power German bomber hidden in Canada that delivers more than twice the power of a B29. White was married three times and had four children. He died in Montross, Virginia in 1967 at the age of 64.
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