Bugs and octopi...........................ghost stories and ghost writers..........I don't think Clavell wrote all those novels.................


Film industry[edit]In 1953, Clavell and his wife emigrated to the United States and settled in Hollywood.^[where?] Clavell scripted the science-fiction horror film The Fly (1958) and wrote a war film, Five Gates to Hell (1959).^[5] Clavell was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for the The Great Escape (1963).^[6] He also screenwrote, directed, and produced the box office hit, To Sir, With Love (1967), starring Sidney Poitier and based on E. R. Braithwaite's semi-autobiographical 1959 book.
Clavell's daughter Michaela appeared briefly as Penelope Smallbone, Moneypenny's would-be successor, in the James Bond 007 movie Octopussy (1983). The character, however, did not catch on and was dropped after the film.^[