Sumner Locke Elliott

Career overview

Sumner Locke Elliott was an Australian-born writer and actor who was born in Sydney on October 17, 1917. Throughout his career, he contributed to numerous television programs and film projects. His television writing credits include work for Way Out, Lights Out, Suspense, Studio One, The Philco Television Playhouse, DuPont Show of the Month, Producers' Showcase, Goodyear Television Playhouse, and Hedda Hopper's Hollywood. He also contributed to the production of The Winslow Boy.

In addition to his television work, Elliott was a novelist and screenwriter. His autobiographical novel, Careful, He Might Hear You, fictionalized his upbringing by his aunts following the death of his mother, the writer Sumner Locke, one day after his birth. His father was the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. As a screenwriter, Elliott was hired to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's. He remained active in the industry until his death on June 24, 1991, in Manhattan, New York City.