William Percy Lipscomb (born 1887 in Merton, Surrey, England, died 25 July 1958) was a British-born Hollywood playwright, screenwriter, producer and director.
Lipscomb edited a brewery magazine and wrote sketches for gramophone companies in his spare time.
He also wrote some Jack Raymond films including French Leave (1930),[2] The Great Game (1930), Tilly of Bloomsbury (1931), and The Speckled Band (1931).
[5] In 1931 he reportedly wrote an original for Jack Buchanan to be directed by Basil Dean, The Fun Men Have but it was not made.
[7] Lipscomb was one of several writers in The Good Companions (1933) starring Matthews, produced by Michael Balcon and directed by Victor Saville.
Lipscomb worked on Channel Crossing (1933); Loyalties (1933) from the play by John Galsworthy; I Was a Spy (1933); and The King of Paris (1934) for Raymond.
Lipscomb found himself in demand to adapt historical novels: Cardinal Richelieu (1935), Les Misérables (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), A Message to Garcia (1936), Under Two Flags (1936), and The Garden of Allah (1936).
[13] In Hollywood Lipscomb was reportedly writing an Australian bushranging story Captain Midnight.
[17][18] Ealing sent Lipscomb to Australia to write Bitter Springs (1950) and a version of the bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms.