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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 from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Plater was born in Jarrow, England, although his family moved to Hull in 1938. He attended Kingston High School.
Jarrow was much publicised as a severely economically depressed area before the Second World War (Plater joked that his family left Jarrow just after the Great Depression to catch Hull just before the Blitz). He trained as an architect at King's College, Newcastle (later the University of Newcastle), but only practised in the profession briefly, at a junior level. He later stated that it was shortly after he was forced to fend off a herd of pigs from eating his tapemeasure while he was surveying a field that he left to pursue full-time writing. Plater stayed in the north of England for many years after he became prominent as a writer and lived in Hull.
He first made his mark as a scriptwriter for Z-Cars (1962–65), along with its spin-offs Softly, Softly (1966–69) and Softly, Softly: Task Force (1969–76). His subsequent credits include The Reluctant Juggler in the series The Edwardians (1972), Shoulder to Shoulder (1974), The Stars Look Down (1975), Trinity Tales (1975), Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!, The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic, the musical Close the Coalhouse Door with songwriter Alex Glasgow from the writings of Sid Chaplin, Get Lost! (1981), On Your Way, Riley (1982), The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Misterioso (an adaptation of his novel, 1991), Oliver's Travels (1995), an adaptation of J.B. Priestley's The Good Companions (1980) for Yorkshire Television, a film adaptation of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Belonging and the theatre play Peggy for You, based on the life of Plater's former agent Peggy Ramsay, which was nominated in 2001 for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award.
http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=1341 An anthology of work celebrating the diversity of the BAFTA-winning writer Alan Plater Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain's most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories, the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful Beiderbecke trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. Plater excelled in the creation of credible, engagingly ordinary characters embroiled in drama and intrigue (exemplified in Beiderbecke's jazz-loving Geordie woodwork teacher, Trevor Chaplin); with a dry humour, class consciousness and frequent acknowledgement of the north-south divide, his skilful dialogue has been described as combining 'The voice of Coronation S...
Alan Frederick Plater, CBE, FRSL (15th April 1935 - 25th June 2010) was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He first made his mark as a scriptwriter for Z Cars. His subsequent credits include The Stars Look Down (1974), Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!, The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic, the musical Close the Coalhouse Door with songwriter Alex Glasgow from the writings of Sid Chaplin, Get Lost! (1981), The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Misterioso (an adaptation of his novel, 1991), Oliver's Travels (1995), an adaptation of J.B. Priestley's The Good Companions (1980) for Yorkshire Television, a film adaptation of George Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Belonging and the theatre play Peggy for You, based on the life of Pl...
Clip from the 1994 TV film by Alan Plater starring Elliot Gould, Geraldine James and Alun Armstrong. Irascible American jazz pianist Joe Warren comes to the north of England for a series of gigs. Joe had been to England about ten years previously and soon his past is catching up with him.
Alan Plater, CBE, is an English playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Plater served as president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain from September 1991 until April 1995. In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Drama.
Author Alan Plater talsk to Mike Neville of Tyne Tees TV, I do not own the footage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Plater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Neville_%28newsreader%29
"Crying All Day" - theme from The Beiderbecke Affair by Alan Plater, with James Bolam (Trevor Chaplin) and Barbara Flynn (Mrs Swinburne).
http://www.networkdvd.net/product_info.php?products_id=1408 Jan Francis leads a lively cast in Beiderbecke writer Alan Plater's definitive adaptation of J.B. Priestley's celebrated novel. Charting the rollercoaster fortunes of a struggling concert party, Francis co-stars alongside Bryan Pringle, John Stratton and Moody and Pegg's Judy Cornwell, with guest appearances by Roy Kinnear, Denis Lawson and Nigel Hawthorne. Priestley's defining work -- and one which established him as a national figure -- The Good Companions has been a mainstay of English literature since its initial publication in 1929. Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on th...
Documentary celebrating the founding of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in 1959. Scott, a rising young saxophone player, opened a club where he and his friends could play the music they liked. Over the following years, the club had its ups and downs, reflecting the changes in attitudes to jazz and the social life of surrounding Soho. Now Ronnie Scott's is known throughout the world as the hearbeat of British jazz. In this tribute, Omnibus talks to some of Ronnie's greatest admirers including Mel Brooks, the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP and writer Alan Plater, and features rare archive footage of some of the club's historic performances by Zoot Sims, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by British politician Chris Mullin. The novel has twice been adapted for television. The first version, also titled A Very British Coup, was adapted in 1988 by screenwriter Alan Plater and director Mick Jackson. Starring Ray McAnally, the series was first screened on Channel 4 and won Bafta and Emmy awards,
Part 15 of Alan Plater's film starring Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong
Part 16 of Alan Plater's film starring Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong.
Part 17 of Alan Plater's film starring Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong.
Part 18 of Alan Plater's film starring Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong.
Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992. All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. The adaptations were written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and the series was produced by George Gallaccio. In addition to its availability on VHS and DVD, the series began to be released on Blu-ray Disc in October 2014, marking its 30th anniversary.
Documentary celebrating the founding of Ronnie Scott's Jazz club in 1959. Scott, a rising young saxophone player, opened a club where he and his friends could play the music they liked. Over the following years, the club had its ups and downs, reflecting the changes in attitudes to jazz and the social life of surrounding Soho. Now Ronnie Scott's is known throughout the world as the hearbeat of British jazz. In this tribute, Omnibus talks to some of Ronnie's greatest admirers including Mel Brooks, the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP and writer Alan Plater, and features rare archive footage of some of the club's historic performances by Zoot Sims, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
Alan Plater, CBE, is an English playwright and screenwriter, who has worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. Plater served as president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain from September 1991 until April 1995. In the New Year's Honours List published 31 December 2004 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Drama.
John Godber Known for his innovative work in theatre, John Godber is one of the most widely performed writers in the English language. Born in Upton, West Yorkshire in 1956 into a family of miners, he trained as teacher of drama and English at Bretton Hall College before going on to become Head of Drama at Minsthorpe High School, the school he attended as a student. Whilst he was teaching there, he won almost every major award at the National Student Drama Festival between 1981 and 1983. In 1984, at the age of 26, he was appointed as Artistic Director to the Hull Truck Theatre Company and went on to win five Edinburgh Fringe First awards including the 1984 Laurence Olivier Comedy of the Year Award for Up 'n' Under. Bouncers was nominated for UK Comedy of the Year in 1985 and won seven Los ...