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Anthony Read

Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Born April 21, 1935Died November 21, 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).

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Heartbeat
  • The Professionals
  • Hammer House of Horror

Known For

  • The Professionals
  • Hammer House of Horror
  • The Omega Factor
  • Into the Labyrinth
  • Heartbeat
  • The Lotus Eaters
  • Z Cars
  • The Black Arrow
  • Paris in the Springtime

Anthony Read Filmography

1992
Heartbeat (TV Series)
1990
The Chief (1990) (TV Series)
1981
Into the Labyrinth (TV Series)
1980
1980
1979
The Omega Factor (TV Series)
1973
Playhouse (TV Series)
1972
The Black Arrow (TV Series)
1962
Z Cars (TV Series)

1972
The Lotus Eaters (TV Series)

1993

1978
1978
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet · as Script Editor
1977
The Professionals (TV Series) · as Story
1963
Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Script Editor

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