Jack Whittingham

Jack Whittingham (1910 - July 4, 1972) was a British playwright, film critic, and screenwriter.

He is best-known for having collaborated with Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory on a possible James Bond television series or film. When these plans were scrapped, Fleming novelized the work into his ninth official novel, Thunderball, however, the novel only credited Fleming. McClory and Whittingham then sued Fleming, which gave McClory the rights to produce an official film and a future adaptation of the film. Jack Whittingham had previously given his part of the rights to the story to Kevin McClory.

Whittingham died in 1972, eleven years before McClory's 1983 Thunderball adaptation, Never Say Never Again.

Further reading

• Kevin McClory
• The controversy over Thunderball