Anthony Read

Anthony Read
Born(1935-04-21)21 April 1935
Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, England
Died21 November 2015(2015-11-21) (aged 80)
Taplow, Buckinghamshire
OccupationAuthor, screenwriter, script editor, television producer
Alma materRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama
Period1964–2015
GenreComedy, drama, adventure, science fiction

Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999.

Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).[1]

  1. ^ Toby Hadoke (30 November 2015). "Anthony Read obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2016.