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Anthony Read
Writer, Producer, 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).
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).
Anthony Read Filmography
| 2002 | Revelations - The Initial Journey (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 1999 | A Twist in the Tale (TV Series) |
| 1998 | The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | The Chief (1990) (TV Series) |
| 1986 | Chocky's Challenge (TV Series) |
| 1984 | One by One (TV Series) |
| 1981 | Into the Labyrinth (TV Series) |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 1979 | Sapphire and Steel (TV Series) |
| 1975 | Quiller (TV Series) |
| 1973 | Playhouse (TV Series) · as Screenplay |
| 1973 | Sutherland's Law (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Black Arrow (TV Series) |
| 1972 | Crown Court (TV Series) |
| 1970 | Play for Today (TV Series) |
| 1967 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters (TV Series) |
| 1962 | Z Cars (TV Series) |
| 1972 | The Lotus Eaters (TV Series) |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters (TV Series) |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | |
| 1984 | Chocky (TV Series) · as Dramatisation |
| 1979 | The Omega Factor (TV Series) · as By |
| 1977 | The Professionals (TV Series) · as By |
| 1964 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) · as Dramatised By |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) · as By |