
Anthony Read
April 21, 1935 (90 years old) in Staffordshire, England, UK
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).
Known For
Credits
- 2010 ·Into the Unknownas
- 2008 ·The Elusive David Agnewas
- 2007 ·A Matter of Timeas
- 2007 ·Getting Blood from the Stonesas
- 2007 ·Defining Shadowsas
- 2007 ·Parrot Fashionas
- 2007 ·The Humans of Taraas
- 2006 ·Built for War: The Sontaran Storyas
- 2005 ·Paris in the Springtimeas