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Alan Plater
Plater (right) with actor Malcolm Hebden in 1972
Born
Alan Frederick Plater (1935-04-15)15 April 1935 Jarrow, England
Died
25 June 2010(2010-06-25) (aged 75)[1] London, England
Occupation
Scriptwriter
Period
1962–2010
Genre
Television
Notable works
Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (1976–1977) The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988) A Very British Coup (1988)
Spouse
Shirley Johnson (1958–1985) Shirley Rubinstein (1986–2010)
Alan Frederick PlaterCBE 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.
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Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television...
The Beiderbecke Trilogy refers to three television serials written by AlanPlater and made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in the United Kingdom...
serial produced by Jonathan Powell for the BBC. It is an adaptation by AlanPlater of Anthony Trollope's first two Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden...
Plater is a surname, and may refer to: People Felix Plater (1536–1614), Swiss physician George Plater (1735–1792), American lawyer and politician Thomas...
wife in the 1988 Look and Read children's serial, Geordie Racer; in the AlanPlater drama Joe Maddison's War, playing Jenny Barlow; and the love interest...
produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific AlanPlater, whose lengthy credits in British television since the 1960s included...
Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by AlanPlater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy...
television series, consisting of six 50-minute programmes, written by AlanPlater and shown on BBC2. It was loosely based on Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury...
British-American television film directed by Gillies MacKinnon. The script by AlanPlater focuses on the efforts of a recently widowed woman to re-unite the members...
Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by AlanPlater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke...
Christopher Miles and co-produced by Andrew Donally. The screenplay was by AlanPlater from the biography The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore. The music score...
the musical plays Close the Coal House Door and On Your Way, Riley! by AlanPlater, and scripts for the TV drama When the Boat Comes In, the theme song...
(4.6); 3 August 1997, ITV (director: Alan Wareing) Oliver's Travels ... Cathy; 1995, BBC Wales (writer: AlanPlater; director: Giles Foster) The Vacillations...
Raman Mundair Peter Nichols Onyeka Joe Orton John Osborne Harold Pinter AlanPlater J. B. Priestley Peter Quilter Terence Rattigan David Rudkin Willy Russell...
J. Louden in a BBC radio production of The Devil's Music, written by AlanPlater. In 2011, Warrington played the father of a suspected terrorist in the...
(2004) The Monastery (2005) The Ghost in Your Genes (2005) Time Shift: AlanPlater (2005) The Queen's Castle (2005) Guarding the Queen (2007) The Restaurant...
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