• 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...
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  • Durbridge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Don Durbridge (1939–2012), radio presenter Francis Durbridge (1912–1998), English playwright...
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  • Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private...
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  • 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...
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  • crime drama Breakaway, playing the part of Jo Hathaway, written by Francis Durbridge. Dalby has made several appearances on television, from the 1980s...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • summer of 1971. Subsequently, she made her West End debut in the Francis Durbridge thriller Suddenly at Home in January 1973. She also played Bettan...
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  • Trams to Lime Street with Billie Whitelaw. Hedley starred in the Francis Durbridge-scripted BBC series The World of Tim Frazer (transmitted from November...
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  • series Space: 1999 Breakaway, a 1980 English TV series written by Francis Durbridge Breakaway PPV, a Canadian pay-per-view television provider Breakaway...
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  • 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...
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    playing the fictional detective Paul Temple in several series by Francis Durbridge. Among his film appearances are the character of Cranford in The Man...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • minutes. Paul Temple features Francis Matthews (1927–2014) as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the...
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  • "natives". [citation needed] In Paul Temple (1940) [Track 15] by Francis Durbridge the phrase "he worked like a nigger" is used without any apparent...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Compact and The Newcomers are known to exist. The early televised Francis Durbridge serials from 1952 to 1959 were either never recorded (the first two...
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  • 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...
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  • namens Harry Brent [de] (dir. Peter Beauvais, TV miniseries, based on Francis Durbridge), as Samuel Fielding 1968: Babeck [de] (dir. Wolfgang Becker, TV miniseries)...
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  • Sue Lloyd and Kate O'Mara. He also appeared in the West End in the Francis Durbridge thriller Suddenly at Home. He worked extensively in theatre in Great...
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  • by Jack Rickard and Mell Lazarus (US) Paul Temple (1951–1971) by Francis Durbridge, Alfred Sindall, Bill Bailey and John McNamara (UK) Pavlov (1979–...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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