Anthony Read

Known for WritingBorn 1935-04-21Died 2015-11-21Staffordshire, England, UK

Anthony Read (21 April 1935 – 21 November 2015) was an English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author. He was principally active in British television from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, which included a period as a script editor and writer of Doctor Who from 1977 to 1979, although he occasionally contributed to televised productions until 1999. Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a second career as a print author, concentrating largely on World War II histories. He was also a chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. From 2004 he regularly wrote prose fiction, mainly in the form of a revival of his television series The Baker Street Boys (1983).Read more

Movies & web series

Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

Doctor Who

The Professionals

The Lotus Eaters

Heartbeat

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

The Black Arrow

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

Into the Labyrinth

Z-Cars

The Chief

Chocky's Challenge

Hammer House of Horror

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

Diane

Playhouse

Centre Play

The Omega Factor

Hell's Angel

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

Chocky's Children

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

Doctor Who: Underworld

Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

Into the Unknown

The Elusive David Agnew

A Matter of Time

Parrot Fashion

Getting Blood from the Stones

The Humans of Tara

Defining Shadows

Paris in the Springtime

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

Chocky

Kipper