Happy birthday, Frederick Knott.

Richard Crenna in
Wait until Dark
(1967)

Frederick Knott, playwright of the Edgar-winning Dial M for Murder (1952; two films and four TV productions; soon to be staged in Utah), the Edgar-winning Write Me a Murder (1961; Broadway production with Denholm Elliot and Kim Hunter), and Wait until Dark (1966), was born today in China in 1916. He died in 2002.