The timeline below shows the known plays, books and screenplays RC Sherriff created or worked on during his lifetime.
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Film: Journey’s End (1930)
Play: A Hitch in the Proceedings (1921)
1920s
Play: The Woods of Meadowside (1922)
Play: Profit & Loss (1923)
Play: Cornlow in the Downs (1923)
Play: The Feudal System (1925)
Play: Mr Birdie’s Finger (1926)
Play: Journey’s End (1928)
1930s
Book: Journey’s End (1930)
Co-authored with Vernon Bartlett
Play: Badger’s Green (1930)
Play: Journey’s Other End (1930)
Little-known sequel to Journey's End
Book: The Fortnight in September (1931)
Play: Windfall (1934)
Play: Two Hearts Doubled (1934)
Play: St Helena (1934)
Film: The Invisible Man (1933)
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Film: Film: One More River (1934)
Film: Badger’s Green (1934)
Film: Windfall (1935)
Film: Rhodes of Africa (1936)
Script consultant, uncredited.
Film: : The Road Back (1937)
Book: Greengates (1936)
Film: Three Comrades (1938)
Wrote first draft, uncredited.
Film: Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
Nominated for an Academy Award / Oscar
Film: : The Four Feathers (1939)
1940s
Book: The Hopkins Manuscript (1939)
Film: Film: Flight Command (1940)
Script consultant, uncredited.
Film: Freedom Radio (1941)
Script consultant, uncredited
Film: That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Film: Major Barbara (1941)
Script consultant, uncredited
Film: They Met in Bombay (1941)
Script consultant, uncredited
Film: Mrs Miniver (1942)
Wrote outline treatment and one scene: uncredited
Film: Stand By For Action (Cargo of Innocence) (1942)
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Film: Stand By For Action (Cargo of Innocence) (1942)
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Film: This Above All (1942)
Film: Stand By For Action
[Cargo of Innocence] (1942)
Film: Forever and a Day (1943)
One of many writers, uncredited
Film: Victory Through Air Power (1943)
One of many writers, uncredited
Book: Chedworth (1944)
Film: Odd Man Out (1947)
Play: Miss Mabel (1948)
Film: Escape (1948)
Script consultant, uncredited
Film: Quartet (1948)
1950s
Film: Trio [Sanatorium] (1950)
Play: Home at Seven (1950)
Film: No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Play: The White Carnation (1953)
Film: Home at Seven (1952)
Book: King John’s Treasure (1954)
Film: A Prize of Gold (1955)
Wrote first draft, uncredited
Play: The Long Sunset (1955)
Film: The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
Film: The Dam Busters (1955)
Nominated for BAFTA
Film: Dunkirk (1958)
Wrote first draft, uncredited
Play: The Telescope (1956)
Play: Play: Cards with Uncle Tom (1958)
Broadcast by BBC Home Service in February 1958
1960s
Play: A Shred of Evidence also titled The Strip of Steel (1960)
Musical: Johnny The Priest (1960)
Based on the play: The Telescope
Play: The Ogburn Story (1962)
Book: The Ogburn Story (1962)
Book: The Wells of St Mary’s (1962)
Book: No Leading Lady (1968)
RC Sherriff’s autobiography
1970s
Movies / screenplays
Theatre /
Stage plays
Books
Film: Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Script consultant, uncredited
Film: Storm over the Nile (1955)
Cinemascope remake of Four Feathers
Book: Book: Siege of Swayne Castle (1973)