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He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific writer for television; he also wrote 34 stage plays and a number of feature films. [8] In the 1970s he turned to novels, including a spy story, The Left-Handed Sleeper , and a wartime thriller The Lions of Judah .
Author Ted Willis's list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.
Ted Willis Series Character: George Dixon. The following bibliography - Checklist contains the author's crime and mystery fiction books listed in order.
A complete list of all Ted Willis's books in order (7 books). Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards.
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Born in Tottenham, Middlesex, Willis was elected Chairman of the Labour League of Youth as the candidate of the left in 1937. In 1941 he became Secretary General of the Young Communist League. He was also drama critic for the Daily Worker Willis enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers in 1939, subsequently serving in the Army Kinematograph Service. He ofte...
His passion for drama first manifested in plays he wrote for the Unity Theatre, based in a former chapel near St Pancras, during the war. He was best known for writing the television series Dixon of Dock Green, based on the stories of Gordon Snashall, a local Chislehurst policeman with whom he was great friends; the series ran for more than twenty ...
Announced on 23 December 1963 he was awarded a life peerage, which was created on 21 January 1964 with the title Baron Willis, of Chislehurst in the County of Kent,on a Labour Party nomination. Willis was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1959 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the club at the BBC’s Lime Grove Studios, in London’s Shepher...
He married the actress Audrey Hale in 1944 and they had a son and a daughter. He died of a heart attack at his home in Chislehurst, Kent in December 1992 aged 78, and was buried at Tottenham Cemetery. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Willis,_Baron_Willis
He was best known for writing the television series Dixon of Dock Green, based on the stories of Gordon Snashall, a local Chislehurst policeman with whom he was great friends; the series ran for more than twenty years. He also wrote nine films. He was Chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain from 1958 to 1964.
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He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific writer for television; he also wrote 34 stage plays and a number of feature films. In the 1970s he turned to novels, including a spy story, The Left-Handed Sleeper , and a wartime thriller The Lions of Judah .
