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John Christopher

Writer, Actor
Born April 16, 1922Died February 3, 2012 (89 years)
Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.

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Known For

  • No Blade of Grass
  • High Moon

John Christopher Filmography

2014
High Moon · as Novel
1970
No Blade of Grass · as Novel

1964
For Those Who Think Young · as College Boy
1963
Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Harold Macbride

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