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Charles Gerald Wood FRSL [ 1] (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was an English playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. [ 2] His work has been staged at the Royal National Theatre as well as at the Royal Court Theatre and in the theatres of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Feb 5, 2020 · British screenwriter and playwright Charles Wood, known for such productions as “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Tumbledown” and “Iris,” has died at the age of 87.
- Leo Barraclough
Charles Wood, who has died aged 87, was a writer for stage and screen whose brilliant and idiosyncratic use of language was wedded to an iconoclastic, passionate humanism. Wood was born to a...
Charles Wood was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England. His work has been staged at the National Theatre, the Royal Court and in the theatres of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Charles Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a British playwright and scriptwriter. He was born in Guernsey. Wood was known for his works in The Knack ...and How to Get It, Help! and Iris. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984.
A British playwright who established himself in the 1960s at the RSC, Wood went on to write the likes of Help! (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and The Bed Sitting Room (1969) for the screen.
Charles Wood was born on 6 August 1932 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Iris (2001), The Knack... and How to Get It (1965) and The Bed Sitting Room (1969). He was married to Valerie Newman. He died on 1 February 2020 in England, UK.