Writing
Anthony Read
- Born
- Apr 21, 1935 · Aged 80
- Died
- Nov 21, 2015
- Place of birth
- Staffordshire, England, UK
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 11
- TV credits
- 0
Biography
Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, 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. He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly…
