Given the question: Facts:   - imdb id: 0121104    - yearsactive: 1928 - 1952    - death date: 1981      - birth date: 31 january 1904    - name: roger burford    - death place: hampshire united kingdom    - birth place: blaby , leicestershire united kingdom    - occupation: screenwriter   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of roger burford .
The answer is:
roger d'este burford -lrb- 1904 -- 1981 -rrb- was a british screenwriter .he also wrote crime fiction as roger east .initially a poet and novelist , burford was a diplomat in moscow during world war ii .