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Wilfred Glyn Greatorex (27 May 1921 – 14 October 2002 [1]) was an English television and film writer, script editor and producer. Early life. Born in Liverpool, he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.
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Oct 17, 2002 · Wilfred Greatorex, who has died at the age of 80, was one of the most prolific and assured of television script-writers and editors from the 1960s into the 1980s, during which span they...
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.
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Wilfred Greatorex was born on May 27, 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 October 14, 2002 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.
- May 27, 1922
- October 14, 2002
Some 15 years before US television celebrated the primetime soap opera power and money machinations of Dallas (CBS, 1978-91) and Dynasty (ABC, 1981-89), Wilfred Greatorex had gripped the British television audience with the thrusting big business series The Plane Makers in 1963 - effectively creating the television boardroom drama.
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 ...
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 ...
