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Alan Plater. 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]
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.
Jun 25, 2010 · Fri 25 Jun 2010 09.29 EDT. 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...
Mini Bio. 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. His first plays were written for radio, a ...
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...
Jun 25, 2010 · Playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater has died of cancer at the age of 75, his agent has confirmed. Plater produced numerous works for the stage and screen, including seminal police drama Z...
Jun 25, 2010 · Photograph: Handout/PA. Alan Plater. This article is more than 13 years old. Mark Lawson on Alan Plater: 'Bright, socialist and proudly northern' Throughout his long and varied career the...
