Alistair MacLean

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1922 age 0

   Born

2. 1968 age 46

   CreditIce Station Zebrascreenwriter

   CreditWhere Eagles Darescreenwriter

3. 1971 age 49

   CreditWhen Eight Bells Tollscreenwriter

4. 1975 age 53

   CreditBreakheart Passscreenwriter

5. 1987 age 64

   Died

• EKElliott Kastner3 titles
• FMFerdy Mayne2 titles
• AIArthur Ibbetson2 titles
• AHAnthony Hopkins1 title
• CEClint Eastwood1 title
• PMPatrick McGoohan1 title
• RBRobert Beatty1 title
• ELEd Lauter1 title
• JGJerry Goldsmith1 title
• JHJack Hawkins1 title

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  Photo:Clayton EvansPublic domain

• "Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world."

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever begin to fall in love with her, but I'm afraid that's just how it was. The emotions are no respecters of the niceties, the proprieties and decencies of this life.

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Dr. MacDonald was a big heavily-built man in his late forties, with that well-leathered and spuriously tough look you quite often find among a certain section of the unemployed landed gentry who spend a great deal of time in the open air, much of it mounted on large horses in pursuit of small foxes.

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Every man is what environment and heredity make him.

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0

• To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last the dawn.

  Alistair MacLean, CC BY-SA 4.0