Norman MacOwan was a British actor and writer He started his career in the theater in 1903 and both wrote and performed a number of plays in the 1920s and 1930s Plays Norman MacOwan wrote included The Blue Lagoon 1921 The Infinite Shoeblack 1930 and Glorious Morning 1938 MacOwan appeared in a number of movies including BBC SundayNight Theatre 1950 Tread Softly Stranger 1958 Kidnapped 1960 and The City of the Dead 1960 He was married to Violet Ellen Stephenson actress He died on December 31 1961 in Hastings East Sussex England