• Keith Spencer Waterhouse CBE (6 February 1929 – 4 September 2009) was a British novelist and newspaper columnist and the writer of many television series...
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  • 1961 British crime drama film directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from the 1958 novel of the same name by Mary Hayley...
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  • Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell is a play by Keith Waterhouse about real-life journalist Jeffrey Bernard. Bernard was still alive at the time the play was first...
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  • on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. The show was produced by Verity Lambert with Rex Firkin...
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  • 1963 British CinemaScope comedy-drama film based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by John Schlesinger, it stars Tom Courtenay (who had understudied...
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    Conti returned to the West End portraying Jeffrey Bernard in the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (1989). Conti received an Academy Award...
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  • on CBS from February 26 to April 28, 1979. The series was based on Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's 1960 British play Billy Liar and their 1973-74 TV...
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  • Television for transmission on the ITV network. It was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and starred former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee as...
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  • up. Produced by Yorkshire Television, the scripts were written by Keith Waterhouse (author of Billy Liar) and Willis Hall. The remaining four episodes...
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  • the dialogue and improve the script, Hitchcock hired British authors Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, known for their screenplays for Whistle Down the Wind...
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  • formed an extremely prolific partnership with his life-long friend Keith Waterhouse producing over 250 works. He wrote plays such as Billy Liar, The Long...
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  • Billy Liar (category Novels by Keith Waterhouse)
    Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and been featured...
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  • The Estate Sale, 2023 Everything Must Go (novel), a 1969 novel by Keith Waterhouse "Everything Must Go!", a graffiti mural by Daniel Doherty in the Mission...
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    PwC (redirect from Price Waterhouse Coopers)
    by a merger between two accounting firms: Coopers & Lybrand, and Price Waterhouse. Both firms had histories dating back to the 19th century. The trading...
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    approached to play the part of Worzel Gummidge in a film to be written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. When this project fell through, Pertwee encouraged...
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  • starred James Bolam and ran for one series in 1988. It was written by Keith Waterhouse. Unusually, for a sitcom at the time, there was neither a studio audience...
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  • February 1979 – 31 October 1981, Southern Television for ITV (writers: Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall ; directors: James Hill and David Pick) "Obituary:...
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  • appearances on the London stage include Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse. Bolam lives in Wisborough Green, West Sussex and Chiswick, London...
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  • colour of the grass on the other side of the fence. Crisply adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, the film is like a scrapbook of typical human experience...
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  • later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse. He was played by his friend Peter O'Toole when the play first opened...
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    TV series. Southern Television's production for ITV was written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, and starred Jon Pertwee as Worzel, with Una Stubbs...
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  • Stoppard David Storey Alfred Sutro Herbert Swears Miles Tredinnick Keith Waterhouse Timberlake Wertenbaker Arnold Wesker Emlyn Williams Snoo Wilson Charles...
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  • Stanley Ustinov Studio Deirdre O'Kane, Owen McDonnell 2014 Billy Liar Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall Royal Exchange Theatre Harry McEntire, Rebeka Hinds...
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  • missionary in Fiji Kate Waterhouse (born 1983), Australian model Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), English writer Matthew Waterhouse (born 1961), British actor...
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  • Burton Company’s production of Twelfth Night. 2014 Liz in Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse. Directed by Sam Yates at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. 2015 Gwendolen...
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  • March 2014; In April 2014, it was announced the tower would be spared. Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), author of Billy Liar Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933)...
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  • series was based on the 1959 semi-autobiographical novel Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and finally...
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    1990, the BBC World Service broadcast a radio version of the 1986 Keith Waterhouse adaptation, starring Judi Dench and Michael Williams; this production...
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    Roy Kinnear and Patsy Rowlands Genre Sitcom Written by Willis Hall Keith Waterhouse Directed by David Mallet Starring Roy Kinnear Patsy Rowlands Country...
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  • 2004: Peter Charlton 2013: Jeremy Clifford 2015: James Mitchinson Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), author of Billy Liar Barbara Taylor Bradford (born 1933)...
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