Anthony Marriott
Anthony Marriott | |
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| Born | Anthony John Crosby Marriott 17 January 1931 London, UK[1] |
| Died | 17 April 2014 (aged 83) |
| Education | |
| Spouse |
Heulwen Roberts (died 1999) |
| Children | 3[2] |
Anthony John Crosby Marriott JP (17 January 1931 – 17 April 2014) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and stage and television actor.[2]
As a playwright he was best known as the joint author, with Alistair Foot, of the farce No Sex Please, We're British, which opened at the Strand Theatre, London, on 3 June 1971.[3] It has been performed in 52 countries and on 21 February 1979 became the longest running comedy in the history of world theatre.[4] A film version starring Ronnie Corbett was released in 1973.
In 1967 Marriott was hired by Amicus Productions to rewrite the screenplay penned by Robert Bloch for The Deadly Bees, a film based on the novel A Taste for Honey by Gerald Heard.
Marriott also co-created the long-running British television series Public Eye with Roger Marshall. He never wrote a televised episode for the series, but did write an original novel based on it, Marker Calls the Tune, in 1968.[5] He also wrote television and radio for the BBC and The Rank Organisation.
He lived for many years in Osterley, West London and was a Justice of the Peace.[4]
Other plays
[edit | edit source]- With Alistair Foot, Uproar in the House, Garrick Theatre and Whitehall Theatre, 1967–69
- With John Chapman, Shut Your Eyes and Think of England, Apollo Theatre, 1977
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Anthony Marriott at IMDb
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- 1931 births
- 2014 deaths
- 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century English male actors
- 20th-century English male writers
- 20th-century English screenwriters
- Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- English comedy writers
- English male dramatists and playwrights
- English male screenwriters
- English male stage actors
- English male television actors
- English male television writers
- English radio writers
- Male actors from London
- People educated at Felsted School
- Writers from London