Biography
Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE (9 August 1918 – 2 December 1966) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.
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Filmography
all 12
Writer 9
Movies 6
TV Shows 6
Producer 1
Screenplay 1
Passer-By
The Lady in the Van (2015)
Movie
6.27
Consulting Producer
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Movie
Writer
Im Namen der Freiheit (1972)
Movie
Writer
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Movie
Writer
Já jsem Osango (1969)
Movie
Writer
Sword of Honour (1967)
TV
Creator / Writer
Maigret (1964)
TV
Writer
Tales of Mystery (1961)
TV
Writer
Maigret (1960)
TV
Writer
The Crawling Eye (1958)
Movie
Screenplay
Lilli Palmer Theatre (1955)
TV
Writer
The Other Man
TV
Ratings
Average 5.64
Based on 78 Thousand movie and tv ratings over time
1955
1961
1969
2009
2015
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Information
Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1918-08-09
Deathday1966-12-02 (48 years old)
Birth PlaceCarrickmines, Republic of Ireland
Height
SpouseGwyneth Mary Lewis
ChildrenRichard Brandon Synge Cooper, Guy Evan Cooper
FatherGuy Edward Cooper
MotherWinifred Annette Warren
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire
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