Michael Voysey (1920 in

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− 1987 in

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) was an English

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and writer for television programmes. As a playwright, he created ''My Astonishing Self'' from the works of

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.''G.B.S. Lives'', Time article published Monday, January 30, 1978

Time.com. Retrieved 2006-12-20. He also wrote ''The Amorous Goldfish'' and adapted ''Marguerite'' by

Armand Salacrou Armand Camille Salacrou (; 9 August 1899 – 23 November 1989) was a French dramatist. Biography He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surre ...

Doollee.com. Retrieved 2006-12-20.

Works

As a television writer he wrote the following:
Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2006-12-20. *'' Father Brown (1974 TV series), Father Brown'' (1974), television series (adaptation) *''Cheri'' (1973), television *'' Cranford'' (1972), television *''Wives and Daughters'' (1971), television miniseries (adaptation) *''Imperial Palace'' (1969), television *''

Middlemarch ''Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life'' is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, in 1829 ...

'' (1968), television miniseries (adaptation) *"A Place of One's Own", an episode of ''

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'' (1968) *''The White Rabbit'' (1967), television series adapted by Voysey from the novels by

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Action TV Online. Retrieved 2006-12-20. *'' The Woman in White'' (1966), television series (writer) *''Mr. John Jorrocks'' (1966), television series (writer) *''The Old Wives' Table'' (1964), television *''

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'' (1962), television series (writer) *''

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'' (1960), television miniseries *''

Barnaby Rudge ''Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty'' (commonly known as ''Barnaby Rudge'') is a historical novel by English novelist Charles Dickens. ''Barnaby Rudge'' was one of two novels (the other was ''The Old Curiosity Shop'') that Dickens pub ...

'' (1960), television series (writer) *''Hilda Lessways'' (1959), television (adaptation) *'' The Royalty'' (1957), television series (writer) *"The Present", an episode of ''

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'' (1956)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Voysey Date of birth missing Date of death missing 1920 births 1987 deaths 20th-century English male writers 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English screenwriters English male dramatists and playwrights English male television writers People from Grimsby Writers from Colchester Writers from Lincolnshire