Alan Dent

Alan Holmes Dent (7 January 1905 – 19 December 1978) was a Scottish journalist, editor and writer.

He was educated at Carrick Academy[1] and Glasgow University, where he began to study medicine at the age of 16, but later switched to French, English and Italian.

Later, in Agate's Ego volumes of diaries and letters, Dent was, according to John Gielgud, called "Jock".

He became the film critic of the Illustrated London News and broadcast for the BBC's European Service.

He was text editor and advisor to Laurence Olivier for his three Shakespeare films as star and director: Henry V (1944),[4] Hamlet (1948),[5] and Richard III (1955).