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He began his writing career in British television with both original television plays and adaptations of classic works by Charles Dickens, W. Somerset Maugham, Daphne du Maurier, and Charlotte Brontë, among others, and had won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain award twice.
Jul 19, 2018 · Hugh Whitemore, the British playwright renowned for dramatising the lives of such real-life figures as Alan Turing and Winston Churchill, has died at 82.
Hugh Whitemore was born on 16 June 1936 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), The Gathering Storm (2002) and The Boy in the Bush (1984). He was married to Rohan McCullough and Sheila Lemon. He died on 17 July 2018 in the UK.
- Writer, Producer
- June 16, 1936
- Hugh Whitemore
- July 17, 2018
Breaking the Code is a 1986 British play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science.
- Hugh Whitemore
- 1986
Hugh Whitemore’s biographical play tells the story of Alan Turing, a British mathematician who played a key role in cracking the German Enigma code during World War Two and developed early theories in computer science.
Jul 22, 2018 · Hugh Whitemore, the playwright, who has died aged 82, was one of the most prolific and distinguished writers for the small screen; he turned to the theatre with efficiency and seriousness of ...
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Nov 23, 1987 · T he title of Hugh Whitemore’s elegant and poignant biographical play contains at least four layers of meaning. Taken together, they explain what intrigued Whitemore in the life of Alan Turing,...
