Leslie Stokes was an English playwright and BBC radio producer and director. As a young man Leslie Stokes was an actor and later became a playwright and BBC radio producer and director. Together with his brother, author and playwright

Sewell Stokes Francis Martin Sewell Stokes (16 November 1902, London – 2 November 1979, London) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions with his brother, Lesli ...

, he co-wrote a number of plays, including the success ''

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...

'', starring

Robert Morley Robert Adolph Wilton Morley (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States. He was frequently cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment, often in ...

as Wilde. It was this play which launched Robert Morley's career as a stage actor on both sides of the Atlantic. The film ''

'' (1960) was based on the Stokes brothers' play.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stokes, Leslie English radio producers English dramatists and playwrights Place of birth missing Year of birth missing Year of death missing English male dramatists and playwrights