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Willis married the London-based actress Audrey Hale in 1944 [15] and they had a son and a daughter. [9] He died of a heart attack at his home in Chislehurst , Kent in December 1992 aged 78, [ 8 ] and was buried at Tottenham Cemetery .
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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 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, [4] and was buried at Tottenham Cemetery .
Willis married the London-based 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.
He was miraculously brought back to life for TV. Born in Tottenham, Ted Willis was made a life peer in 1963, chosen by Harold Wilson’s Labour Government, becoming Baron Willis of...
Feb 18, 2018 · Edward Henry Ted Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 22 December 1992) was a British playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's most prolific writer for television, and also.
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Dec 31, 2020 · Betty Benita Banks Willis received her wings on December 23, 2020. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on July 1, 1933 to the late Oliver and Eunice Banks. She was married to Deacon Marion E. Willis, Jr. for 60 years and from this union four children were born.
