Andrew Soutar

Andrew Soutar (1879 – 1941) was a British novelist and journalist.

Biography

Born Edward Andrew Stagg, Soutar married Elspeth Soutar Swinton in 1907 at Prestwich, Lancashire adopting the name Soutar shortly after. Soutar was a correspondent, but is better known today for his novels, which were often serialized in newspapers. He also wrote pulp adventure stories for magazines.^[1] Soutar's stories proved very popular with filmmakers, with a number being made into films during the silent era.

Selected novels

• Back From the Dead (London, 1920) was made into a 1925 film Back to Life

Filmography

• The Black Night, directed by Harold Weston (UK, 1916, based on the novel The Black Night)
• The Green Orchard, directed by Harold Weston (UK, 1916, based on the novel The Green Orchard)
• The Streets of Illusion, directed by William Parke (1917, based on a story by Andrew Soutar)
• Souls Adrift, directed by Harley Knoles (1917, based on a story by Andrew Soutar)
• High Stakes [fr], directed by Arthur Hoyt (1918, based on the short story High Stakes)
• The Great Game, directed by A. E. Coleby (UK, 1918, based on the novel The Straight Game)
• His Parisian Wife, directed by Émile Chautard (1919, based on the novel The Green Orchard)
• The Sealed Envelope, directed by Douglas Gerrard (1919, based on a story by Andrew Soutar)
• Snow in the Desert, directed by Walter West (UK, 1919, based on the novel Snow in the Desert)
• Other Men's Shoes, directed by Edgar Lewis (1920, based on the novel Other Men's Shoes)
• A Beggar in Purple [fr], directed by Edgar Lewis (1920, based on the novel A Beggar in Purple)
• Courage, directed by Sidney Franklin (1921, based on a story by Andrew Soutar)
• The Imperfect Lover, directed by Walter West (UK, 1921, based on the novel The Imperfect Lover)
• Love's Redemption, directed by Albert Parker (1921, based on the short story On Principle)
• Was She Justified?, directed by Walter West (UK, 1922, based on the play The Pruning Knife)
• Hornet's Nest, directed by Walter West (UK, 1923, based on the novel Hornet's Nest)
• In the Blood, directed by Walter West (UK, 1923, based on the novel In the Blood)
• Back to Life, directed by Whitman Bennett (1925, based on the novel Back from the Dead)
• Romances of the Prize Ring, seven short films (UK, 1926, based on stories by Andrew Soutar)
• Butterflies in the Rain, directed by Edward Sloman (1926, based on the novel Butterflies in the Rain)
• The Phantom in the House, directed by Phil Rosen (1929, based on the novel The Phantom in the House)
• Worldly Goods, directed by Phil Rosen (1930, based on a story by Andrew Soutar)
• Almost Married, directed by William Cameron Menzies (1932, based on the novel The Devil's Triangle)
• The Man Called Back, directed by Robert Florey (1932, based on the novel Silent Thunder)

Screenwriter

• A Bag of Gold (UK, 1915, short film)
• I Hear You Calling Me (dir. A. E. Coleby, UK, 1919)
• A Gipsy Cavalier (dir. J. Stuart Blackton, UK, 1922)

References

Bibliography

• Peter Brooker & Andrew Thacker. The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume II: North America 1894-1960. Oxford University Press, 2012.

External links

• Andrew Soutar at IMDb
• Play by Andrew Soutar on Great War Theatre website