The writer from whose work the 1953 film Knights of the Round Table was adapted died in what year?
Knights of the Round Table (film) Knights of the Round Table is a 1953 American historical Technicolor film made by MGM. Directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman, it was the first film in Cinemascope made by that studio. The screenplay was by Talbot Jennings, and Noel Langley from Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", first published in 1485 by William Caxton.
Ivor Montagu Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist in the 1930s. He helped to develop a lively intellectual film culture in Britain during the interwar years, and was also the founder of the International Table Tennis Federation.