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(June 2020) Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) [1] was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Career. Plater was born in Jarrow, County Durham, although his family moved to Hull in 1938. He attended Kingston High School. [2]
- 25 June 2010 (aged 75), London, England
- Shirley Johnson (1958–1985), Shirley Rubinstein (1986–2010)
- Scriptwriter
- Alan Frederick Plater, 15 April 1935, Jarrow, England
Jun 25, 2010 · Alan Plater, who has died of cancer aged 75, was one of a handful of writers, including Jack Rosenthal, Dennis Potter and Simon Gray, who truly made a difference on British television in the...
- Michael Coveney
Alan Plater. Writer: A Very British Coup. Born in Jarrow in 1935, Alan Plater was brought up in Hull, and trained as an architect in Newcastle. He has been a full-time writer since 1961, with over two hundred assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and film - plus six novels, occasional journalism, broadcasting and teaching.
- Alan Plater
- June 25, 2010
- April 15, 1935
Jun 25, 2010 · Alan Plater, whose TV credits in a writing career spanning 50 years included The Beiderbecke Affair, Fortunes of War and the screenplay for A Very British Coup, has died, his agent confirmed to...
- Jason Deans
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From his early scripts for the groundbreaking police series Z Cars to an adaptation of Chris Mullin's political novel A Very British Coup and his own comedy-drama creations such as his Beiderbecke...
Born in Jarrow on 15 April 1935, Alan Frederick Plater was one of Britain's most prolific, original and entertaining writers, whose work for television, radio, theatre and the cinema, not to mention his six novels, constitutes an unparalleled body of work.
Jun 27, 2010 · Alan Plater ( obituary, 26 June) was a writer's writer. He combined an industry with an ease and fluency that was not only incredibly rare, but almost painfully irksome to any other writer in...