Francis Henry Durbridge (listen; 25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English dramatist and author, best known for the creation of the character Paul...

Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private...

Durbridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Durbridge (1939–2012), radio presenter Francis Durbridge (1912–1998), English playwright...

Bat Out of Hell is a British Thriller television serial created by Francis Durbridge and originally aired on BBC Two from 26 November to 24 December 1966...

crime drama Breakaway, playing the part of Jo Hathaway, written by Francis Durbridge. Dalby has made several appearances on television, from the 1980s...

theme of the popular German television thriller Das Messer (after Francis Durbridge). The single sold in excess of 300,000 copies. Due to the single's...

1950. Many of his works centered on race-tracks or sports cars. With Francis Durbridge, he co-authored two novels in the Paul Temple series: The Tyler Mystery...

Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Sarah Dunant (1960–) John Dunning (1942–2023) Francis Durbridge C. M. Eddy, Jr. Rampo Edogawa (1894–1965) Martin Edwards (1955–) Loren...

Mad Monk (both 1966). On television, from 1969 to 1971, he played Francis Durbridge's amateur private detective Paul Temple in the BBC series of the same...

shown under the umbrella title Francis Durbridge Presents, and was one of a number of serials written by Francis Durbridge during the period. Tony Britton...

20 May 1997 on Channel 4. Based upon the 1964 play by playwright Francis Durbridge, the series stars Tim Dutton, Julie Walters and Adrian Dunbar in the...

this time in a touring production of The Ghost Train and in the Francis Durbridge play Murder with Love. Her other theatre work includes UK touring...

Trams to Lime Street with Billie Whitelaw. Hedley starred in the Francis Durbridge-scripted BBC series The World of Tim Frazer (transmitted from November...

minutes. Paul Temple features Francis Matthews (1927–2014) as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the...

the eponymous television series, based on the character created by Francis Durbridge. She later moved into photojournalism. Ros Drinkwater was born in...

It was based on My Friend Charles (1956), a TV serial written by Francis Durbridge. Doctor Howard Latimer answers what he believes to be a request for...

playing the fictional detective Paul Temple in several series by Francis Durbridge. Among his film appearances are the character of Cranford in The Man...

series Space: 1999 Breakaway, a 1980 English TV series written by Francis Durbridge Breakaway PPV, a Canadian pay-per-view television provider Breakaway...

Anthony Nicholls and Brian Wilde. A crime-based thriller written by Francis Durbridge, it aired in six half-hour episodes between February and March 1955...

film, of Herman Wouk's novel—; Susan Hampshire in House Guests—the Francis Durbridge thriller, at the Savoy Theatre, London—; Lulu in Andrew Lloyd Webber's...

"natives". [citation needed] In Paul Temple (1940) [Track 15] by Francis Durbridge the phrase "he worked like a nigger" is used without any apparent...

Superintendent) Dunn. He was also in Bat Out of Hell (1966), a BBC serial by Francis Durbridge, playing a formidable police inspector, and starred with John Bird...

episodes, also entitled Send for Paul Temple. The radio script was by Francis Durbridge, who immediately collaborated with a co-author, John Thewes, on a...

the film as "average", writing: "Rare coincidence of director, writer (Durbridge) and star (Peter Coke) from radio's famous Paul Temple series. But thriller...

namens Harry Brent [de] (dir. Peter Beauvais, TV miniseries, based on Francis Durbridge), as Samuel Fielding 1968: Babeck [de] (dir. Wolfgang Becker, TV miniseries)...

BBC TV he appeared in The Olympian Way (Pebble Mill, 1981) and the Francis Durbridge series Breakaway (1980). On stage he replaced Jeremy Irons as Judas...

taking itself seriously, the film ends closer to the silliness of Francis Durbridge than to the menace of Alfred Hitchcock." Although the film was not...

witness to a murder carried out by the syndicate. It was written by Francis Durbridge and aired in six half-hour parts on Saturday nights. It was the first...

of Paul Temple in an eight-part radio play based on the works of Francis Durbridge. The series was directed by future award winner Willy Purucker. On...

loosely based on Edgar Wallace's novels as well as TV adaptations of Francis Durbridge novels and plays. In the late 1960s, Reinecker and producer Helmut...