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Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) [ 1] was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He is best known for the sitcom Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and the comedy drama serials The Beiderbecke Trilogy .
Born in Jarrow in 1935, Alan Plater was brought up in Hull, and trained as an architect in Newcastle. He has been a full-time writer since 1961, with over two hundred assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and film - plus six novels, occasional journalism, broadcasting and teaching.
- Alan Plater
- June 25, 2010
- April 15, 1935
Born in Jarrow in 1935, Alan Plater was brought up in Hull, and trained as an architect in Newcastle. He has been a full-time writer since 1961, with over two hundred assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and film - plus six novels, occasional journalism, broadcasting and teaching.
- April 15, 1935
- June 25, 2010
Jun 25, 2010 · Playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater has died of cancer at the age of 75, his agent has confirmed. Plater produced numerous works for the stage and screen, including seminal police...
From his early scripts for the groundbreaking police series Z Cars to an adaptation of Chris Mullin's political novel A Very British Coup and his own comedy-drama creations such as his Beiderbecke...
Jun 25, 2010 · Alan Plater is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Actor, Creator, Dramaturgy, Adaptation, In Memory Of, and Additional Dialogue. Some of his work includes Midsomer Murders, Sherlock Holmes, Lewis, Dalziel & Pascoe, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, A Very British Coup, and Maigret.
Jun 25, 2010 · ALAN Plater, award-winning, Hull-raised writer for stage and screen, has died, aged 75. Click the green PLAY button to hear a Yorkshire Post interview with Alan Plater on the Golden...