Gordon Crier
Gordon Crier (1912 – 16 September 1984) was a Scottish radio and television producer and writer.
His early successes included Band Waggon, the first comedy show designed for radio, broadcast by the BBC from 1938 to 1940, co-produced by Crier and Harry S. Pepper.[1][2] After the first three shows had flopped, the scriptwriter was dismissed and a team of Crier, Vernon Harris, Arthur Askey, and Richard Murdoch was brought in. They made Band Waggon the most popular radio show of the 1930s.[3]
In 1950 Crier was a founding member of the Lord's Taverners, with John Snagge, Roy Plomley, Brian Johnston, and others, a group of actors and BBC men who enjoyed watching cricket from the Tavern pub at Lord's Cricket Ground.[4]
In January 1952, Crier was arrested in Germany by the Russians, while organizing a tour by Gracie Fields, but was soon released.[5]
By 1953, Crier was working for an advertising agency, but he remained a friend of Ronnie Waldman and continued to feed ideas for programmes to the BBC.[6]
Selected credits
[edit | edit source]- Variety (television series, 1937) – producer
- Band Waggon (radio series, 1938–1940) – co-producer and writer
- Band Waggon (film, 1940) – writer
- What Would You Do, Chums? (radio series, 1939) – writer
- The Wind in the Willows (radio adaptation, 1941)[7]
- Peter Pan (radio adaptation, 1941)[7]
- Telecrime (TV series, 1946) (producer – 6 episodes)
- Farewell to the Pegasus (TV movie, 1947) producer
- Cinderella (TV movie, 1950) – scriptwriter
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