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Alan Frederick Plater CBE FRSL (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) [1] was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television from the 1960s to the 2000s. He is best known for the sitcom Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and the comedy drama serials The Beiderbecke Trilogy.
Jun 30, 2010 · In 1963, Plater was asked to join the team writing Z Cars, the mould-breaking police drama which brought a new, gritty realism to cop shows. Twenty years before Hill Street Blues, it showed...
Jun 23, 2023 · Plater was born in 1935 in Jarrow – which thanks to the great 1930s march of the unemployed and the Venerable Bede many centuries before is a spiritual location as much as an actual town. He moved to Hull as a small child, surviving a blitz every bit as destructive as London’s.
Jun 25, 2010 · Playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater has died of cancer at the age of 75, his agent has confirmed. Plater produced numerous works for the stage and screen, including seminal police drama Z...
Jun 25, 2010 · Mr Plater had been battling pancreatic cancer for the past year. His agent confirmed today that he died after being admitted to the Marie Curie Hospice in North London earlier this week.
Jun 26, 2010 · Plater, 75, had been battling pancreatic cancer. His agent confirmed he died yesterday after being admitted to the Marie Curie Hospice in North London earlier this week.
Jun 25, 2010 · Award-winning screen and stage writer Alan Plater died today after battling cancer, his agent said. His included Z Cars, The Beiderbecke Affair, Fortunes of War, Last of the Blonde Bombshells,...
