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RICHARD HARRIS

  (1934 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  represented by Nick Quin

Richard Harris was born in London in 1934. He is a prolific writer, and was most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s He began writing for television, contributing episodes to twenty series like the avengers, the Saint, and the Sweeny. His career has been largely spent writing for the crime and detective genre, but in 1994 he won the prize for best situation comedy from the Writer's Guild of great Britain for a programme he had originated as a stage play. Indeed, though the majority of his work has been for television, a substantial amount of his output has been for the stage. Beginning in about 1971. Harris turned his earlier comedic ambitions towards the stage. the vast majority of his comedic work, even if it later ended up film, derives from his career as a playwright. Throughout the 1970s, a new play of his would be produced almost annually. Though the frequency of his stage work slowed in later decades, his plays continued to debut into the early part of the 21st century. One of his most successful plays, Stepping Out, has appeared in three different versions, ultimately allowing him the opportunity of musical film adaptation. a substantial part of Harris's body of work is adaptation. Often, as in examples cited above, this has taken the form of adapting his own work from one medium into another. However, he has also taken a number of literary characters and adapted them into on-going series. the most long-running of these adaptations are a Touch of Frost and the Last Detective, but he has also converted works including Mark Twain's the Prince and the Pauper into limited-run serials.. He has also adapted a small number of non-English plays into English. the Last Laugh derives from a Japanese work, and his adaptation of a Norwegian play into the dual-language film, Orions Belte, won the inaugural amanda award for Best Norwegian Film in 1985.

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        Albert         Business Of Murder, The         Conscience Be Damned         Dead Guilty         Death In High Heels         Dog It Was, The         Foot In the Door, A         Ghosts         Going Home         Going Straight         In Two Minds         Is It Something I Said?         Keeping Mum         Large As Life         Last Laugh, The         Liza, Liza, Liza         Local Affairs         Magic         Maintenance Man, The         Murder Once Done         No, No, Not Yet         One Night A Week         Out the Window         Outside Edge         Partners         Party Piece         Plaster         Saving It For Albie         Show Business         Stepping Out         Stepping Out - the Musical         Surviving Spike         That Old Feeling         Three Piece Suite         Two And Two Make Sex         Virginia         Visiting Hour         Waiting         Who Goes Bare?