Keith Dewhurst (born 24 December 1931) is an English playwright and film and television scriptwriter.

Life

Born in

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, Keith Dewhurst was educated at

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and

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, graduating with a B.A. in English in 1953. After working as a yarn tester for Lancashire Cotton Corporation, he worked for the '' Manchester Evening Chronicle'' from 1955 to 1959,Christopher Smith, 'Keith Dewhurst', in K. A. Berney, ed., ''Contemporary British Dramatists'', Gale, 1994, pp.187-91 as their reporter on

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'', 10 March 2012 Dewhurst has written television plays since 1960, and plays for the theatre since the late 1960s. He has also written radio plays and a couple of novels. His non-fiction ''Underdogs'' (2012) tells the story of Darwen FC's long run in the 1879 F.A. Cup. John Crace, 'Underdogs: The Unlikely Story of Football's First FA Cup Heroes by Keith Dewhurst – review', ''The Guardian'', 21 March 2012

Works

Plays

* ''Running Milligan''. Televised 1965. Published in Michael Marland, ed., ''Z Cars: Four Scripts from the Television Series'', 1968. * ''Rafferty's Chant''. Produced at the

Mermaid Theatre The Mermaid Theatre was a theatre encompassing the site of Puddle Dock and Curriers' Alley at Blackfriars in the City of London, and the first built in the City since the time of Shakespeare. It was, importantly, also one of the first new th ...

, 1967. Published in ''Plays of the Year''33, 1967. * ''Corunna!''. Produced 1971. * ''Kidnapped'', adaptation of

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. Produced 1972. * ''The Bomb in Brewery Street''. Produced 1975. * ''Lark Rise'', adaptation of works by

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. Produced 1978. * ''Candleford'', adaptation of works by Flora Thompson. Produced 1979. * ''Don Quixote'', adaptation of

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. Produced 1982. * ''The Animals of Farthing Wood'', adaptation of the

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Television plays

* ''Albert Hope'', 1962 * ''The Siege of Manchester'', 1965 * ''Men of Iron'', 1969 * ''It Calls for a Great Deal of Love'', 1969 * ''Lloyd-George'', 1973 * ''Our Terry'', 1975

Non-fiction

* ''Underdogs: the unlikely story of football's first FA Cup heroes'', Yellow Press, 2012.

References

External links

*
Keith Dewhurst
at www.doollee.com

at www.film.reference.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Dewhurst, Keith 1931 births Living people English dramatists and playwrights English sportswriters English male dramatists and playwrights English male non-fiction writers