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Charles Gerald Wood FRSL (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England . His work has been staged at the Royal National Theatre as well as at the Royal Court Theatre and in the theatres of the Royal Shakespeare Company .
Elected: 1985. Year of birth: 1932. Year of death: 2020. Charles Wood was a playwright and scriptwriter for radio, television, and film. He lived in England. His work has been staged at the National Theatre, the Royal Court and in the theatres of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Charles Wood, who has died aged 87, was a writer for stage and screen whose brilliant and idiosyncratic use of language was wedded to an iconoclastic, passionate humanism. Wood was born to a...
Charles Wood. Writer. 6 August 1932 to 1 February 2020. A British playwright who established himself in the 1960s at the RSC, Wood went on to write the likes of Help! (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and The Bed Sitting Room (1969) for the screen.
Charles Wood (6 August 1932 – 1 February 2020) was a British playwright and scriptwriter. He was born in Guernsey. Wood was known for his works in The Knack ...and How to Get It, Help! and Iris. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. He was nominated for many BAFTA Awards during his career.
Charles Wood was born on Guernsey on 6 August 1932 to Jack Wood and his wife Mae Harris. His parents were actors in a repertory theatre company playing there at the time and Wood travelled with them until 1939 when the family settled in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. There, he attended St Mary’s Catholic Primary School and Chesterfield Grammar School.
Apr 13, 2020 · Cliff Willmot. Mon 13 Apr 2020 12.34 EDT. The obituary of Charles Wood mentioned his military career and how this seems to have influenced much of his subsequent work for stage and screen.
