Anthony Read
| Anthony Read | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 April 1935 Cheslyn Hay, England |
| Died | 21 November 2015 (aged 80) |
| Occupation | Author, screenwriter, script editor, and television producer. |
| Period | 1964–2015 |
| Genre | Comedy, drama, adventure, science fiction |
Anthony "Tony" Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was a British script editor, television writer and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, 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. Since 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).
His earliest work was as a freelance writer for Z-Cars in 1962. He started working at the BBC on 2 November 1963. He soon graduated to writer/script editor of several other adventure-mystery series, like the anthological Detective, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling and the version of Sherlock Holmes (1965) with Douglas Wilmer in the lead. The balance of the decade was spent on the drama, The Troubleshooters. A series about the petroleum industry, Troubleshooters provided Read with the steadiest work of his career. He was the series' original script editor in 1965, and ended his run as producer of the 1969 season.
When he departed The Troubleshooters, Read kept his producer's hat on for a few years, before returning to his more traditional roles of script editing and writing. The Lotus Eaters and The Dragon's Opponent extended his run as a producer of contemporary dramas. It also continued a few key professional relationships he had enjoyed since the mid-1960s. On The Lotus Eaters, Read was reunited with director Douglas Camfield and writer David Fisher.
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