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Wilfred Greatorex (Wilfred Glyn Greatorex) was born on 27 May, 1921 in Liverpool, England, is a British writer. Discover Wilfred Greatorex's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

Popular As Wilfred Glyn Greatorex
Occupation Television writer, Screenwriter, script editor, Television producer
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 27 May, 1921
Birthday 27 May
Birthplace Liverpool, England
Date of death 14 October, 2002
Died Place Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Nationality Liverpool

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1921

Wilfred Glyn Greatorex (27 May 1921 – 14 October 2002 ) was an English television and film writer, script editor and producer.

Born in Liverpool, he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn.

After wartime service with the RAF, he became a reporter on The Blackburn Times, The Lancashire Evening Post and Reynold's News.

He began his television career at Associated Television.

1960

He was described by The Guardian newspaper as "one of the most prolific and assured of television script-writers and editors from the 1960s into the 1980s".

Starting off as a journalist, he got his big break as a TV writer on Lew Grade's ATV service writing dramas about journalism, such as Deadline Midnight and Front Page Story.

He wrote a number of books, including one about the Battle of Arnhem as ghostwriter for Major General Roy Urquhart.

As a TV script editor he also worked on series such as Danger Man and was also creator/producer of The Inheritors, Hine and The Power Game.

1969

He also wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film Battle of Britain.

1972

And they need to be confronted with other characters just as hard.'' (The Sunday Times, 1972).

1977

In 1977, he came up with the dystopian drama series 1990 for BBC2, starring Edward Woodward.

Greatorex dubbed the series "Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six".

Over its two series it portrayed "a Britain in which the rights of the individual had been replaced by the concept of the common good – or, as I put it more brutally, a consensus tyranny."

The same year he also devised (with Gerard Glaister) the BBC1 wartime drama Secret Army.

The show later inspired the sitcom parody 'Allo 'Allo!.

When talking about his writing style he said "I am opposed to soft-centred characters, which is why I don't create a lot of Robin Hoods. The world's full of hard cases, real villains. And they need to be confronted with other characters just as hard."

1982

His last series for television was Airline in 1982 (starring Roy Marsden).

1990

He was creator of such series as Secret Army, 1990, Plane Makers and its sequel The Power Game, Hine, Brett, Man at the Top, Man From Haven and The Inheritors.

2002

He died in of renal failure in Buckinghamshire in 2002.

''I am opposed to soft-centred characters, which is why I don't create a lot of Robin Hoods.

The world's full of hard cases, real villains.

2011

Papers discovered at a Norfolk auction house in 2011 reveal that 'Hine' had a budget of £84,000, the equivalent of close to £1m some forty years later.