Anthony Read

Writing Apr 21, 1935 Nov 21, 2015 (aged 80) Staffordshire, England, UK

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).

11 Acting Credits

28 Crew Credits

Anthony Read

Acting

Built for War: The Sontaran Story

A Matter of Time

The Elusive David Agnew

Into the Unknown

Parrot Fashion

Getting Blood from the Stones

The Humans of Tara

Defining Shadows

Paris in the Springtime

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

Darkness & Light: The Life of Graham Williams

Crew

Doctor Who

Hammer House of Horror

The Professionals

Heartbeat

The Omega Factor

Z-Cars

Into the Labyrinth

Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation