Biography
George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman. Over the course of his career he wrote eleven novels and one short-story collection in the Flashman series of novels, as well as non-fiction, short stories, novels and screenplays—including those for the James Bond film Octopussy and an adaptation of his own novel Royal Flash. Fraser was born to Scottish parents in Carlisle, England, on 2 April 1925. His father was a doctor and his mother a nurse. It was his father who passed on to Fraser his love of reading, and a passion for his Scottish heritage.Fraser was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Glasgow Academy; he later described himself as a poor student due to "sheer laziness". This meant that he was unable to follow his father's wishes and study medicine.
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Casanova (1987)
The Pyrates (1986)
Red Sonja (1985)
Octopussy (1983)
The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
Royal Flash (1975)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Flashman
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GenderMale
Birthday1925-04-02
Deathday2008-01-02 (82 years old)
Birth PlaceCarlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
ChildrenCaro Fraser
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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