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- Ronald Kirkbride was born on February 1, 1912. He was a writer, known for A Girl Named Tamiko (1962). He died in March 1973 in California, USA.
- Writer of westerns, crime and mystery fiction. One of his novels, 'The Short Night', was based on the life of British spy turned Soviet defector George Blake, who escaped to the East in 1966. Alfred Hitchcock was interested in turning the novel into a motion picture and called upon the help of writers Ernest Lehman and David Freeman, whose work resulted in a draft script. However, due to Hitchcock's ill-health, what would have been his last film, was never made.
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