A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Staffordshire, England, UK
Born:
April 21, 1935
Died:
November 21, 2015
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).
Dramaturgy:
1984 Chocky
Script Editor:
1977 Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
1978 Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978 Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978 Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978 Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978 Doctor Who: Underworld
1979 Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1984 Chocky
Writer:
1971 Hell's Angel
1975 Diane
1977 Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
1977 Kipper
1978 Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978 Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978 Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978 Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978 Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978 Doctor Who: Underworld
1979 Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979 Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1980 Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
1984 Chocky
1985 Chocky's Children
1986 Chocky's Challenge
Producer:
1972 The Lotus Eaters
Story:
1972 The Lotus Eaters
1977 The Professionals
Writer:
1962 Z-Cars
1963 Doctor Who
1972 The Black Arrow
1972 The Lotus Eaters
1974 Playhouse
1977 The Professionals
1979 The Omega Factor
1980 Hammer House of Horror
1981 Into the Labyrinth
1990 The Chief
1992 Heartbeat
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.