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Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In 1964 The Devil and John Brown received the Best Original Teleplay Award of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In the same year, Taylor was named Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Writers and Directors (later BAFTA) for ...
Ken Taylor has written the scripts for almost a hundred hours of television drama in a career spanning more than four decades, starting with the broadcast of his first radio play in 1941 as he was embarking on an RAF troopship for service in India. Born on 10 November 1922, the seventh child of a Lancashire cotton mill owner, he was brought up ...
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A prolific writer active on television, Taylor will be best remembered for adapting Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet as The Jewel In The Crown (1984). He was BAFTA nominated for The Camomile Lawn (1992) and counted such dramas as Shoulder To Shoulder (1974) and Lady Chatterley (1993) among his other work. - Read Ken Taylor's Guardian obituary.
Ken Taylor (scriptwriter) explained. Kenneth Heywood Taylor FRSA (10 November 1922, in Bolton, Lancashire – 17 April 2011, in Cornwall) was an Award-winning English screenwriter. Life. The son of a cotton mill owner from Bolton, Lancashire, Taylor was educated at Gresham's School, Holt.
Ken Taylor. Writer: Drama 61-67. Ken Taylor was born on 10 November 1922 in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Drama 61-67 (1961), The Camomile Lawn (1992) and Shades of Darkness (1983).
