Anthony Read
Schrijver, Producer
21 april 1935 — 21 november 2015 (80 years)
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).
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).
Known For
Filmography
| 2002 | Revelations - The Initial Journey · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | A Twist in the TaleOp Plex |
| 1998 | The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | |
| 1986 | |
| 1984 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror · as ScreenplayOp Plex |
| 1979 | Sapphire and SteelOp Plex |
| 1975 | |
| 1973 | Playhouse · as Screenplay |
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| 1965 | |
| 1962 |
| 2010 | |
| 2007 | A Matter of Time · as Self |
| 2007 | Getting Blood from the Stones · as Self |
| 2007 | Parrot Fashion · as Self |
| 2007 | The Humans of Tara · as Self |
| 2006 | Built for War · as Self |
| 2005 | Paris in the Springtime · as Self |
| 2004 | The Culture Show · as Self |
| 1992 | Heartbeat · as Written ByOp Plex |
| 1984 | Chocky · as Dramatisation |
| 1979 | The Omega Factor · as By |
| 1977 | The Professionals · as ByOp Plex |
| 1964 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes · as Dramatised By |
| 1963 | Doctor Who · as By |