Sir Basil Hardington Bartlett, 2nd Baronet (15 September 1905 – 2 January 1985[1]) was an actor, screenwriter and writer, and in the 1950s the head of the BBC's script department.
[3] Educated at Repton School in Derbyshire, he went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating as Bachelor of Arts (proceeding MA).
During his convalescence he worked as screenwriter of the war films The Next of Kin (1942) (which he later also turned into a novel), Secret Mission (1942) and They Met in the Dark (1943).
After the War, Bartlett briefly tried to take up his career as actor again, appearing in Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
(1951), before joining the BBC, where he became Head of the Script Department, but also translated a couple of French screenplays.