Dr. Crippen (1962 film) Dr. Crippen (1962 film) Dr. Crippen is a 1962 British biographical film directed by Robert Lynn and starring Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne and Samantha Eggar. The film's plot concerns the real-life Edwardian doctor Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in 1910 for the murder of his wife. The cinematography was provided by Nicolas Roeg. The film ostensibly covers Crippen’s trial but the story is fleshed out with flashbacks to the doctor’s relationship with his coarse, overbearing wife and his affair with a young mistress. Bosley Crowther in "The New York Times" wrote, "well, one must give good scores to Mr.
James Inglis (physician) James Inglis died at Halifax on 9 March 1851. His sister, St. Clair Ransford, attributed his early death to cardiac arrest, likely due to several bouts of rheumatic fever as a young man. Dr. Inglis and his wife were buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard in Halifax, which unfortunately has been converted into a car park. James Inglis (physician) Dr. James Inglis (1813-1851) was a Scottish physician, author and geologist. Dr. James Inglis was born in Glasgow on 6 September 1813, the son of James Inglis, a merchant and his wife, Charlotte Spalding, the daughter of Charles Spalding, improver of the