Anthony Read

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).
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 1935-04-21 · Staffordshire, England, UK
- Died
- 2015-11-21
Known for
- Doctor Who (1963) — Writer
- Hammer House of Horror (1980) — Writer
- The Professionals (1977) — Writer
- Heartbeat (1992) — Writer
- Play for Today (1970) — Writer
- The Omega Factor (1979) — Writer
- Z-Cars (1962) — Writer
- Into the Labyrinth (1981) — Writer
- Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet (1978) — Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara (1978) — Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time (1978) — Writer
- Doctor Who: The Sun Makers (1977) — Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation (1978) — Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood (1978) — Script Editor
- Chocky's Children (1985) — Writer
- Doctor Who: Underworld (1978) — Script Editor