Eliot Stannard was born on March 1, 1888 in Putney, London, England. He was a writer and director, known for The Laughing Cavalier (1917), The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) and Profit and the Loss (1917). He was married to Patricia Bingham-Johns. He died on November 21, 1944 in Kensington, London.