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Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922 – 11 March 2003) was a British playwright, screenwriter, author, actor and stage director. Laffan is best known for creating the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm, now titled Emmerdale. Raised in a family of fourteen children, Laffan's Catholic upbringing formed the inspiration for many of his plays.
Kevin Laffan was born on 24 May 1922 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Emmerdale Family Trees (2020) and Castle Haven (1969). He was married to Jeanne Thompson. He died on 11 March 2003 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
- May 24, 1922
- March 11, 2003
Kevin Barry Laffan was born on 24th May 1922 in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England. Kevin was an English playwright and screenwriter who created Emmerdale Farm. In 2003, Kevin underwent heart-surgery and died two weeks later on 11th March 2003 after suffering a bout of pneumonia.
Kevin Laffan was born on 24 May 1922 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Castle Haven (1969) and Emmerdale Family Trees (2020). He was married to Jeanne Thompson.
Emmerdale Farm: Created by Kevin Laffan. With Christopher Chittell, Lucy Pargeter, Mark Charnock, Dominic Brunt. A soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Kevin Barry Laffan was the man who created Emmerdale Farm. Without him we would not have over 50 years of this great rural soap opera. He was a playwright. He wrote the first 13 episodes of the show and afterwards worked as a script writer and script consultant on Emmerdale Farm from 1972 to May...
Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922 - 11 March 2003) was a playwright and scriptwriter, probably best known as the creator, in 1972, of ‘Emmerdale Farm’, the ITV soap opera, for which he wrote...
