They began with serious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon ( 1950 ) and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock ( 1947 ), both with Roy producing and John directing.

* The character Pyle in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American has a dog named Prince after The Black Prince.

* BFI feature on Graham Greene's true-life models for the characters of Harry Lime and Holly Martins

He appeared opposite Laurence Olivier and Julie Harris in Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory in a 1961 television production.

* New York Times book review from 1984 of Graham Greene's Getting to Know the General.

Graham Greene's novel The Comedians, set in 1960s Haiti, frequently refers to Samedi.

Greene's life and works are celebrated annually during the last weekend in September with a festival organised by the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust.

She was the inspiration for Mrs Bidlake in Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, for Hermione Roddice in D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, for Lady Caroline Bury in Graham Greene's It's a Battlefield, and for Lady Sybilline Quarrell in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On.

Meccano is mentioned in the first chapter of Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory.

This same year Graham Greene's ( 1904 – 91 ) first major novel Brighton Rock was published.

* Orient Express ( 1934 ): film adaptation of Graham Greene's Stamboul Train.

A WWII short story called ' The News in English ' from Graham Greene's book The Last Word ( 1990 ) is set on a winter morning in Crowborough.

* The 2010 remake of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock was filmed extensively on Beachy Head as well as in nearby Eastbourne, which was preferred to Brighton.

Anthony Burgess wrote that Graham Greene's ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

The Chanson de Roland has an important place in the background of Graham Greene's The Confidential Agent.

At the end of Graham Greene's novel Brighton Rock ( 1938 ), the unnamed Frenchman the old priest tells Rose about, who never took the sacraments but who some think was a saint, is obviously Péguy.

The film Battle of Britain shot scenes at Panshanger Aerodrome and the film of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock was made at the Associated British Picture Corporation's Welwyn Garden City studios.

Pink gin is a popular drink in Graham Greene's ' The Heart of the Matter '.

In her memoir An Impossible Woman ( 1975 ), Graham Greene's friend Dottoressa Elisabeth Moor recounts how she was once urgently called to the Hotel Eden-Paradiso in Anacapri, Italy.

His biography, The Unquiet American, was written by Cecil Currey and published in 1988 ; the title refers to the common, but incorrect belief, that the eponymous character in Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American was based on Lansdale.

The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest ( supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character ), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

After portraying a priest opposite Julianne Moore and Ralph Fiennes in Neil Jordan's acclaimed adaptation of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair ( 1999 ), Isaacs played the charismatic honourable priest opposite Kirsty Alley in the mini series The Last Don.

The town plays a part in Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock when anti-hero Pinkie Brown intends to throw his girlfriend Rose from the high cliffs which are part of the town.

The 1972 movie adaptation of Graham Greene's novel Travels with My Aunt ends with a coin toss that will decide the future of one of the characters.

Later that year, the novel Graham Crackers: Fuzzy Memories, Silly Bits, and Outright Lies was released.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

* In the 2009 Warhammer 40, 000 novel Mechanicum by Graham McNeill, the noosphere is an experimental communication infrastructure that empowers the user by harnessing the power of the collective mind.

Tales of my Landlord includes the now highly regarded novel Old Mortality set in 1679 – 89 against the backdrop of the ferocious anti-Covenanting campaign of the Tory aristocrat Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee ( called " Bluidy Clavers " by his opponents and Bonnie Dundee by his Tory friends ).

His last film, an adaptation of the Graham Greene espionage novel The Human Factor ( 1979 ), had financial problems and was barely released.

The novel opens with the marriage of Lucy Graham, a beautiful, doll-like blonde who enchants almost all who meet her, to Sir Michael Audley, an old, rich, and kind widower, in June 1857.

The supposed flatness of the Norfolk landscape is noted in Noël Coward's Private Lives — " Very flat, Norfolk " — and the history of its waterways and drainage forms the backdrop to Graham Swift's novel Waterland.

* Black Library's Horus Heresy series novel set in the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, titled A Thousand Sons, by Graham McNeil, references the Enochian language.

Poldark author Winston Graham knew the town well and set his novel The Forgotten Story ( 1945 ) in Falmouth.

The " last Buchan " ( as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review ) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River ( American title: Mountain Meadow ), in which a dying protagonist confronts the questions of the meaning of life in the Canadian wilderness.

However, some critics were less than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against Graham Greene for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul Train ( 1932 ).

Here he wrote his first ― but never published ― novel The Poor Man and the Lady in 1867, and the poem " A Young Man's Exhortation ," from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel, The Comedians.

* Wormwood ( G. P. Taylor ), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor

* Spirit: Graham Masterton's 2001 horror novel features characters and themes from The Snow Queen.

* Graham Masterton's novel Picture of Evil, also known as Family Portrait, was set, in part, in Darien, the home of the Gray family, which, like Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray, remain young while their counterparts in a family portrait grow old.

His movie credits include East of Eden, " Big Daddy " in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Desire Under the Elms, Wind Across the Everglades, The Big Country, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ; Ensign Pulver, the sequel to Mister Roberts ; and Our Man in Havana, based on the Graham Greene novel.

At the end of the novel, he sends Graham a note saying that he hopes Graham isn't " too ugly ".

* Monsignor Quixote ( Graham Greene novel about friendship between priest and Communist mayor )

The song was written by Graham for Ellen Rua, one of the characters in his second novel, The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night, also published by Harper Collins.

" You Raise Me Up "- It was in fact reading Graham ’ s novel The Whitest Flower, that led Norwegian composer, Rolf Lovland to contact Graham with a melody.