Michael Clayton Hutton

Michael Clayton Hutton was a British author and playwright notable for several plays that appeared in the West End during the post-Second World War era. He died in 1953 at the age of thirty three. He was reportedly suffering from depression when he committed suicide. Several of his plays were adapted for film and television including The Happy Family that was turned into a 1952 film of the same title. He had a posthumous success in the West End with his comedy Silver Wedding in 1957.

Selected works Power Without Glory (1947) The Happy Family (1951) Dead Secret (1952) Starlight (1956) Silver Wedding (1957)