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Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In 1964 The Devil and John Brown received the Best Original Teleplay Award of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Ken Taylor has written the scripts for almost a hundred hours of television drama in a career spanning more than four decades, starting with the broadcast of his first radio play in 1941 as he was embarking on an RAF troopship for service in India.
· Home · Television and Film Credits · Stage Credits · Awards . Awards. SCREEN WRITERS’ GUILD AWARDS (GB) 1964 Best Original Teleplay The Devil and John Brown
· Home · Television and Film Credits · Stage Credits · Awards . Selected Television And Film Credits . 1. “The Peacock Spring” (1996) TV mini-series (adapted)
Apr 17, 2011 · The screenwriter Ken Taylor, who has died aged 88, had his first radio play broadcast in 1941. Anyone who has enjoyed drama in the intervening 70 years will have been touched by his work for radio, television, film and stage, which included a Bafta-nominated adaptation of Mary Wesley's The Camomile Lawn for Channel 4...
- November 10, 1922
A prolific writer active on television, Taylor will be best remembered for adapting Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet as The Jewel In The Crown (1984). He was BAFTA nominated for The Camomile Lawn (1992) and counted such dramas as Shoulder To Shoulder (1974) and Lady Chatterley (1993) among his other work.
Ken Taylor was born on 10 November 1922 in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Drama 61-67 (1961), The Camomile Lawn (1992) and Shades of Darkness (1983). He died on 17 April 2011 in Cornwall, England, UK.
