William A. Burton

He and his wife co-wrote the novel "The Years Between" prior to her death from cancer in 1958. Burton then returned to Canada, where he lived until his death at the age of 75.

William Burton rejoined the staff of the Palmer Institute, where he was named Director of Education, and remained there until the mid 1950's.

Burton wrote several more stage plays, including "The Spare Room", which starred 'Jimmie James', before he returned to Hollywood in 1946.

While at the Palmer Institute, he wrote several plays, as well as the screenplays for The Fighting Smile (1925), a western starring Bill Cody and 'Jean Arthur (I)'; and Easy Pickings (1927), adapted from his play of the same name, which starred Anna Q. Nilsson and was directed by George Archainbaud.

He served in the Canadian Infantry during the war, and then moved to Hollywood in 1922. He joined the staff of the Palmer Institute of writing and was the author of their course in fiction writing.

Burton returned to England in the late 1920's, where he became the Scenario Editor for British Instructional Films, which produced the critically acclaimed film Shiraz (1928), from his original screenplay in 1928.

He moved to Canada prior to World War I, where he married Annie Ada Belby in 1909.

Writer, Critic, Instructor. William A. Burton was born in Derby, England, 1883.