Recently, the following study was done for The Avengers writers:
1. Rex Edwards
Writer: The Grandeur That Was Rome
After careful research (website Ancestry, books, notes), I finally found proof that real name of our writer is Walter Frederick Edwards.
He started as actor, together with his wife Hilda Fenemore (married her in 1938) participated in the Labour League of Youth and later Unity Theatre, and in the 1950s switched to activity as the writer for radio and TV. He also participated as script associate for series Dixon of Dock Green.
Rex Edwards.
Born: October 21, 1912 in London, England, UK.
Died: April 18, 1983 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
2. Edward Rhodes
Teleplay: Box of Tricks
Before, there were writer Ted Rhodes and Edward Rhodes on IMDb, which as it turned out were actually one and the same person.
Edward Rhodes, Yorkshireman, studied at RADA, worked as actor in theatre and films, wrote the scripts for TV serials, after was instrumental in creating popular All Creatures Great and Small. He then enjoyed a brief period teaching at New York University, before taking a job as theatre critic for the Wandsworth Borough News (under name Paul Nelson), which he enjoyed for 20 years, before retiring in 2001.
Born: 1934
Died: December 16, 2003 (age 69) in London, England, UK.
3. John Gilbert
Teleplay: Traitor in Zebra
Personality about which I know nothing - on prospect of early studies, I took as a basis that our writer and son of Lewis Gilbert perhaps are same face. Website BFI is also pointed out it, but my doubt has always depended on the fact, that at the point of early 1960s, the son of Lewis Gilbert participated in the works of his father and was only as an assistant editor and an assistant director, not even mentioned in the credits. Hmm...
When he became the producer (initially as associate producer for film Alfie, after music producer) I thought, it is probably to this he sought. Hardly our person.Yesterday I found other John Gilbert, which maybe is our man. His real name is John Gilbert Harrison, and he was writer for some books in different genres from 1958 to early 1960s, also worked as writer for BBC radio and TV, ITV - our point.
He was brother-in- law of Greville Wynne, British spy, who wrote The Man from Moscow, released two years later (1967), and helped him for this work. Greville wrote in book: My grateful thanks go to John Gilbert who, as a professional writer, has given me his generous help and advice. John Gilbert Harrison
Born: June 20, 1912 in London, England, UK
Died: 2003 in Dorset, England, UK
4. Max Marquis
Teleplay: Diamond Cut Diamond
Hmm, it may very well be that he was actually born in 1919 and died in 2013,
need to check - on moment I have not come to any particular results.
I think that in some of these films, his role could to be cut at all.
