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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.
Mar 30, 2017 · It is the bureaucracy creator Wilfred Greatorex has in his sites, crushing the entrepreneurs an small businessman, controlling where people work, live and play. 1990 is a right-winger’s nightmare/wet dream. Look at how terrible the state can be.
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.
- 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.
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 ...
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.
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.
