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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.
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), Secret Agent (1964) 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 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
The series is set in a dystopian future in which 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 . Dubbed " Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six" by its creator, Wilfred Greatorex, 1990 stars Edward Woodward as journalist Jim ...
FOR two decades the writer Wilfred Greatorex wrote and devised a range of television dramas, many becoming popular examples of the genre, such as his personal favourite, the 1960s hit The Plane Makers. Under the guiding hand of Lew Grade, for whom he worked at the independent station Associated Television for several years, he supplied a myriad ...
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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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 squadron. After World War II, instead of enrolling at a university, he started a career in journalism, working for a local paper in Blackburn, England, and then for the Reynold's News in London.
