Henry Francis Maltby (25 November 1880 – 25 October 1963) was a prolific writer for the London stage and British cinema from after the First World War, until the 1950s.
Born in Ceres, Cape Colony (later to be part of South Africa), Maltby was educated at Bedford School.
[1] On his return to Britain, Maltby wrote and performed in many plays for the West End theatre, some achieving success and transferring to Broadway.
[3] By 1919, Maltby was working on collaborations in musical theatre, with Fred Thompson adapting the libretto of the French Maggie by Étienne Rey and Jacques Bousquet.
He began to turn out comedies at a rate of two a year, with his own works, such as For the Love of Mike being adapted by Clifford Grey and Sonny Miller into a musical.