Harry Spalding(1913-2008)
- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and brought to the US when
he was six, Harry Spalding credits his interest in writing to his
mother, who read the classics aloud to him when he was a child. Early
on, Spalding did some short story and newspaper writing, then went into
the theater business as a film booker/buyer in San Francisco. Working
in this capacity brought him in contact with exhibitor/moviemaker
Robert L. Lippert, who asked Spalding
to read and critique scripts that his company was preparing to shoot in
Hollywood. In 1956, when Lippert got the go-ahead to make a steady flow
of low-budget features for 20th Century-Fox release, Hollywood's doors
opened wide for Spalding, who moved from San Francisco to become part
of the Lippert unit. He often used the pseudonym "Henry Cross" because
"I wrote 18 original scripts in three years, and I didn't want people
to start thinking that the only writer in Hollywood was Harry
Spalding!"
