| 词条 | Ken Taylor (scriptwriter) |
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Kenneth Heywood Taylor FRSA (10 November 1922, Bolton, Lancashire – 17 April 2011, Cornwall[1]) was an Award-winning English screenwriter. LifeThe son of a cotton mill owner from Bolton, Lancashire, Taylor was educated at Gresham's School, Holt.[2] Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades. In 1964 The Devil and John Brown received the Best Original Teleplay Award of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In the same year, Taylor was named Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Writers and Directors (later BAFTA) for his trilogy of television plays The Seekers.[2] The Jewel in the Crown, adapted from Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novels as a fifteen-hour mini-series, earned Ken Taylor an Emmy nomination in 1984 along with the award as Writer of the Year from the Royal Television Society, while his The Camomile Lawn (1992), adapted from Mary Wesley's book of the same name, received a BAFTA nomination. His adaptation credits also include Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, The Melancholy Hussar by Thomas Hardy, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd by D. H. Lawrence, The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West and The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark, and The Devil's Crown.[2]In 1953, Taylor married Gillian Dorothea Black and they had two sons and two daughters.[2] One son, adopted, is the Liberal Democrat politician Matthew Taylor. Awards
References1. ^Tim Piggott-Smith [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/27/ken-taylor-obituary Obituary: Ken Taylor], The Guardian, 27 April 2011 2. ^1 2 3 International Who's Who 2004, [https://books.google.com/books?id=jn_GG55gKm8C&pg=PA1658 p. 1658] at books.google.com, accessed 10 January 2009 External links
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