Career
Dighton wrote for the stage until 1936, when he made the transition to films. His output during the 1940s included comedian Will Hay"s last starring features, and several George Formby films as well as the 1947 adaptation of Charles Dickens" Nicholas Nickleby, and the 1943 war movie Undercover starring John Clements and Michael Wilding. He gained a second nomination for the American-financed.
Two of his more popular stage plays, The Happiest Days of Your Life and (known as The Passionate Sentry in the United States of America), were successfully adapted for the screen by Dighton himself, the former in collaboration with Frank Launder.
His final screen cr was his adaptation of George Bernard Shaw"s The Devil"s Disciple, penned in collaboration with Roland Kibbee. The Goose Steps Out The Foreman Went to France The Next of Kin.