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Anthony Read | |
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| Born | 21 April 1935 Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 21 November 2015 (aged 80) Taplow, Buckinghamshire |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter, script editor, television producer |
| Alma mater | Royal Central School of Speech and Drama |
| Period | 1964–2015 |
| Genre | Comedy, drama, adventure, science fiction |
Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999.
Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).[1]
- ^ Toby Hadoke (30 November 2015). "Anthony Read obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2016.