James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell was a novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II hero and POW. Clavell is best known for his epic Asian Saga series of novels and their televised adaptations, along with such films as "The Great Escape" and "To Sir, with Love". Wikipedia
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