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Alec Coppel
Alec Coppel

Alec Coppel

ALEC COPPEL was an Australian-born writer of screenplays, novels and stage plays. His first two produced plays - Short Circuit (1935) and The Stars Foretell (1936) - had only short runs, but I Killed The Count (1937) became a West End hit, racking up 185 performances. Coppel was the first Australian to receive an Academy Award nomination for The Captain's Paradise, which was nominated for Best Story in 1953 and served as the basis for Oh, Captain!. Coppel moved to Los Angeles in 1954, where he wrote a number of scripts, including an early draft of Vertigo (1958), and a popular play, The Gazebo.

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