Sapper, creator of bulldog Drummond, what was his real name?

[neilred24]

Sapper, creator of bulldog Drummond, what was his real name?

[ChocClare]

Herman McNeile

[ChocClare]

Herman McNeile

[firefly]

Can you tell us some of the names of the Bulldog Drummond stories, please, and a bit more information about him?

[Sludge]

Here are a few:

 

BULLDOG DRUMMOND ESCAPES
Starring Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel, Porter Hall, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Fay Holden, Clyde Cook and Walter Kingsford.


BULLDOG DRUMMOND COMES BACK
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond and John Barrymore as Inspector Neilson of Scotland Yard. With Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, J. Carrol Naish, John Sutton and Helen Freeman.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S REVENGE
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond and John Barrymore as Inspector Neilson of Scotland Yard. With Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Nydia Westman, Lucien Littlefield, John Sutton.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S PERIL
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond and John Barrymore as Inspector Neilson of Scotland Yard. With Louise Campbell, Reginald Denny, E.E. Clive, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson, Nydia Westman.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND IN AFRICA
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond. Also starring Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, J. Carrol Naish, Reginald Denny, Anthony Quinn, E. E. Clive and Michael Brooke.

ARREST BULLDOG DRUMMOND
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond. Also starring George Zucco, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Jean Fenwick, Zeffie Tillbury.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S SECRET POLICE
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond. Also starring Leo G. Carrol, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, Elizabeth Patterson and E. E. Clive.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BRIDE
Starring John Howard as Bulldog Drummond. Also starring Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, Elizabeth Patterson, and Eduardo Cianelli.

  

[Sludge]

A brief biography is that between the two world wars a demobilized British ex-officer became the most beloved fictional character since Sherlock Holmes. Captain Hugh Drummond�known as "Bulldog"�was the hero of seventeen novels and more than twenty films, stage plays, and BBC radio programs. The series was so popular that in fact it outlived the original author, Herman ("Sapper") Cyril McNeile, (Gerard Fairlie was the second author), and withstood the interruption of the Second World War disappearing from the public eye in the 1950s only with the introduction of the James Bond character. The books are now out of print and only a few videos of the films can be found which I have listed in the posting above. The world of Bulldog Drummond is a world rife with Bolsheviks, terrorists, spies, saboteurs, Packards, English Channel packets, Rolls-Royces, castles, mastiffs, and tarantulas.

[maxi29]

Sludge's excellent summary omits to mention that the books' strong xenophobic content, particularly the rampant anti-semitism, would be unacceptable to a modern audience - apart from BNP members that is.

[Sludge]

In the 1930's, prior to WW11, there was a cinema near us which held a special screening for young people every Saturday morning at 2d a head. It was known as the "tuppenney rush" and oh! what joy! when a tale of derring-do by Bulldog Drummond was on.