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| name = John Antrobus | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1933|7|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Woolwich, London, England | occupation = Screenwriter and playwright. | period = 1956–2010 | genre = Comedy, drama, adventure | spouse = Margaret McCormick | children = | alma-mater = }}John Antrobus (born 2 July 1933) is an English playwright[1] and script writer. He has written extensively for stage, screen, TV and radio, including the epic World War II play, Crete and Sergeant Pepper at the Royal Court. He authored the children's book series Ronnie, which includes Help! I am a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory.[2] Early lifeJohn Arthur Antrobus[3] was born at Woolwich, London.[4] His father was a regimental sergeant-major in the Royal Horse Artillery, and the family was stationed at the School of Artillery in Larkhill, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. After attending Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Selhurst Grammar School, Croydon, and King Edward VII Nautical College, London, where he was an apprentice deck officer in the Merchant Navy from 1950 to 1952,[5] Antrobus attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, serving with the East Surrey Regiment from 1952 to 1955,[6] but rebelled and dropped out of the Army.[2][7][8] CareerAfter leaving the Army, spending time also working as a supply teacher and waiter,[9] Antrobus pursued a future writing comedy, and went to Associated London Scripts (ALS), the writers' co-operative set up by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.[10] Antrobus states "I met Spike in 1954 or 55. I had sent a sample script to Galton and Simpson and they took me on at Associated London Scripts". Antrobus and Milligan "wrote a couple of Goon Shows together. I wish I had done more of them with him but I wanted to be a playwright. I didn't realise they were golden times and how they gave life".[11] The two shows were The Spon Plague, and The Great Statue Debate, both broadcast in March 1958.[12][13][14][15] At ALS, Antrobus also worked with Johnny Speight on The Frankie Howerd Show in 1956,[16] After contributing material to the first Carry On film, Carry On Sergeant (1958), he wrote his first movie screenplay: for Idol on Parade (1959), starring Anthony Newley.[17][18] During 1960 he worked with Milligan and Sykes in the second series of Sykes and A... (August- September 1960).[19] He was also a contributing writer to the television series The Army Game, in the 1958 and 1961 shows, along with Larry Stephens, Maurice Wiltshire, and Lew Schwarz in 1958, and Brad Ashton, Barry Took, Marty Feldman and Wilshire in 1961.[20] During the 1960s and 1970s, he provided scripts for television series as diverse as That Was the Week That Was,[7] Television Playhouse and Spike Milligan's Milligan in... {{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} Antrobus wrote for Milligan's last radio series, The Milligan Papers, a BBC Radio Collection released in 2002.[2] Milligan said he did not actually like Antrobus. Antrobus' best known play is The Bed-Sitting Room (1963) (co-written with Milligan),[21] a film version was released in 1969 and a sequel from 1983. His other plays include Cane of Honour (1965), Captain Oates' Left Sock (1969), An Apple A Day (1970) and City Delights (1978). In October 2005, Antrobus and Ray Galton (with whom he had collaborated on the 1986 sitcom Room at the Bottom and Get Well Soon from 1997) unveiled their play Steptoe and Son – Murder at Oil Drum Lane at the Theatre Royal, York. In 2010, Antrobus and Ray Galton's production of Not Tonight Caligula, originally written for Frankie Howerd, was recorded as a live radio play at The Leicester Square Theatre by The Wireless Theatre Company directed by Antrobus and starring Clive Greenwood in Howerd's role. Although largely retired, Antrobus still writes and is involved in fringe productions and talent scouting. He lives in Monaco. In 1958, John Antrobus married the former Margaret McCormick; they had two sons and a daughter.[22][23] Writing credits
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Notes1. ^Plays by John Antrobus 2. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Antrobus|first=John|title=Surviving Spike Milligan: A Voyage Through the Mind & Mirth of the Master Goon|year=2002|publisher=Robson Books|location=London|isbn=0-246-12275-7}} 3. ^https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/R9uL7h93p9UqwOp8zOA_8CesKf8/appointments 4. ^Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Kate Berney, St James Press, 1993, p. 19 5. ^Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Kate Berney, St James Press, 1993, p. 19 6. ^Contemporary Dramatists, ed. James Vinson, St James Press, 1973, p. 36 7. ^1 {{cite book|last=McCann|first=Graham|title=Spike & Co.|year=2006|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|location=London|isbn=0-340-89809-7}} 8. ^Herbert (1981) page 21 also mentions Sandhurst 9. ^Contemporary Dramatists, ed. James Vinson, St James Press, 1973, p. 36 10. ^McCann (2006) p. 156 11. ^{{cite book|last=Ventham|first=Maxine|title=Spike Milligan: His Part In Our Lives.|year=2002|publisher=Robson|location=London|isbn=1-86105-530-7}} p. 68 12. ^McCann (2006) pp367-368 13. ^Antrobus (2002) pp. 16, 32 14. ^The Spon Plague. Goon Show Series 8, No 23. Broadcast 3 March 1958 15. ^The Great Statue Debate. Goon Show series 8, No. 26 (broadcast on 24 March 1958 16. ^McCann (2006) p. 156 17. ^McCann (2006) p. 156 18. ^Antrobus (2002) pp.44 19. ^McCann (2006) p. 156 20. ^McCann (2006) pp. 350, 351. This article previously referred to him contributing to the spin-off show Bootsie and Snudge. However, McCann lists Antrobus amongst the writers for The Army Game, but not Bootsie and Snudge. 21. ^Milligan, Spike, & Antrobus, John (1973) The Bedsitting Room. Tandem: London. First published in Great Britain by Margaret & Jack Hobbs, 1970. Published by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, 1972. © 1970, Spike Milligan and John Antrobus 22. ^Contemporary Dramatists, ed. Kate Berney, St James Press, 1993, p. 19 23. ^{{cite encyclopedia|title=ANTROBUS, John|encyclopedia=Who's Who in the Theatre|volume=1|page= 21|publisher=Gale Research Company|year=1981|issn=0083-9833|editor=Ian Herbert}} Publications
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