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2 unusual facts about Geoffrey Willans


Geoffrey Willans

Herbert Geoffrey Willans, RNVR, (4 February 1911 – 6 August 1958), an English author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the "goriller of 3b and curse of St. Custard's".

The Bridal Path

Geoffrey Willans co-wrote the screenplay, but died before the film was released.



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The Destruction of Sennacherib

In one of the Molesworth books, by Geoffrey Willans, there is a cartoon illustrated by Ronald Searle, in which a master remonstrates with a pupil" 'The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold', Mogley-Howard One."