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Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 – 22 December 1992) was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. He created several television series, including the long-running police drama Dixon of Dock Green.
Ted Willis has 47 books on Goodreads with 779 ratings. Ted Willis’s most popular book is The Buckingham Palace Connection.
Dec 24, 1992 · TED WILLIS, the screenwriter and playwright, created Dixon of Dock Green, and such popular television dramas as Woman in a Dressing Gown (1956), The Young and the Guilty (1956), Look in...
Ted Willis was born on 13 January 1918 in Tottenham, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957), Flame in the Streets (1961) and No Trees in the Street (1959). He died on 22 December 1992 in Chislehurst, London, England, UK.
Feb 5, 2024 · This radio anthology includes five of his best-loved crime tales from the 1960s, '70s and '80s. The Buckingham Palace Connection. Summer, 1976. A question in the House of Lords leads Ted Willis to uncover the extraordinary true story of a 1918 mission to rescue the Romanovs.
Dec 23, 1992 · Ted Willis, credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most prolific TV scriptwriter, died yesterday, his family said. He was 74. His serial epic about a plodding London police...
Playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most prolific television scriptwriter, Willis created Dixon of Dock Green, an immensely popular television series about a friendly, ordinary London police officer.
Dec 24, 1992 · Ted Willis, credited in The Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most prolific television scriptwriter, died on Tuesday at his home in Chislehurst, England. He was 74 years...
Dixon of Dock Green: Created by Ted Willis. With Jack Warner, Peter Byrne, Geoffrey Adams, Arthur Rigby. Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.
Ted Willis summarised the changing critical reception for Dixon in an article published in the TV Times in 1983: "In the first years, the critics were almost unanimous in their acclaim for Dock Green, hailing it as a breakthrough, praising its realism. But slowly, the view began to change.
