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Television writer, Screenwriter, script editor, Television producer. Nationality. British. Period. 1959–1982. Genre. Drama. Wilfred Glyn Greatorex (27 May 1921 – 14 October 2002 [1]) was an English television and film writer, script editor and producer.
Wilfred Greatorex was born on 27 May 1922 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for The Plane Makers (1963), 1990 (1977) and Battle of Britain (1969). He died on 14 October 2002 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- May 27, 1922
- Wilfred Greatorex
- October 14, 2002
Wilfred Greatorex was born on 27 May 1922 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for The Plane Makers (1963), 1990 (1977) and Battle of Britain (1969). He died on 14 October 2002 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- May 27, 1922
- October 14, 2002
1990: Created by Wilfred Greatorex. With Edward Woodward, Robert Lang, Tony Doyle, Paul Hardwick. In a dystopian future, Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.
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- 1977-09-18
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Wilfred Greatorex (1922-2002) was a British writer and producer of TV dramas, especially boardroom intrigues and power struggles. He created The Plane Makers, The Power Game, Front Page Story, The Inheritors and Airline.
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Dubbed " Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six" by its creator, Wilfred Greatorex, 1990 stars Edward Woodward as journalist Jim Kyle, Robert Lang as the powerful PCD Controller Herbert Skardon, Barbara Kellerman as PCD Deputy Controller Delly Lomas, John Savident, Yvonne Mitchell (in her last role), Lisa Harrow, Tony Doyle, Michael Napier Brown, and Cli...
GREATOREX, Wilfred 1921(?)-2002. OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born May 27, 1921 (one source says 1922), in Blackburn, England; died of renal failure October 14, 2002, in Taplow, England. Author. Greatorex was a writer of popular British television series. At the age of eighteen he joined the Royal Air Force to serve in a bomber ...
