Alan Francis Simpson (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017) was an English scriptwriter. He was best known as part of the Galton and Simpson comedy writing...

(1920–1980), Irish theatre director Alan Simpson (scriptwriter) (1929–2017), British screenwriter, of Galton and Simpson Alan Simpson (American politician) (1931–2025)...

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in 26a Oil Drum Lane, a fictional...

broadcast on BBC1 in September and October 1973. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the series starred Leslie Phillips as wealthy womaniser Henry Newhouse...

comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The radio series starred Tony Hancock, with Sidney James, Bill Kerr...

of classic comedy scripts written by the duo Galton and Simpson (Ray Galton and Alan Simpson), including some originally written for Tony Hancock. The...

1934 novel of the same name by Gabriel Chevallier, with Ray Galton and Alan Simpson adapting the text. Filmed on location in France, it starred Roy Dotrice...

radio and television scriptwriter. He was best known as part of the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Alan Simpson. Together they devised...

episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the "Sidney Balmoral James" and...

them in the store. In the early 1950s, scriptwriter Jeremy Lloyd was employed as a junior assistant at Simpson; he drew on his experiences to come up...

film, consisting of Ray Galton OBE (17 July 1930 – 5 October 2018) and Alan Simpson OBE (27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017). They are best known for their...

co-production. Peter Graham Scott was the producer and scriptwriter. The cast included: David McCallum as Alan Breck Ekkehardt Belle as David Balfour Jutta Speidel...

Blood Donor and The Radio Ham). After breaking with his scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson later that year, his career declined. Across his career...

Prior to his death in 2022, he was the last remaining living Doctor Who scriptwriter from prior to Season 18 in 1980. One of his contributions to Doctor Who...

pseudonym "David Agnew" was most often used when the original freelance scriptwriter was unable to accommodate fundamental changes requested by the production...

Zucker based his character on Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, while scriptwriter Pat Proft wrote all of Drebin's lines with nothing being improvised....

Great War has been described as taking a moderate approach, with co-scriptwriter John Terraine fighting against what he viewed as an oversimplification...

September – Ronnie Barker, comic actor (died 2005) 27 November – Alan Simpson, comedy scriptwriter (died 2017) 16 December – Nicholas Courtney, actor (Doctor...

The following are notable alumni of Haileybury: Michael Aitkens, scriptwriter Alan Ayckbourn, dramatist John Bailey, literary critic Davy Burnaby, actor...

starring Frankie Howerd. It was written by Sid Colin, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. It was the second of three film spin-offs from the TV series Up Pompeii...

Television Junction - ITV Chart Show". YouTube. 26 October 2009. "STV scriptwriter engaged". The Stage and Television Today. No. 258. 23 January 1964. p...

and Ward winning the roles. Lorenzo Semple Jr. had signed on as head scriptwriter. He wrote the pilot script and generally wrote in a pop-art adventure...

once begun, failed and almost made him bankrupt. Meeting scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in a pub, he bluffed them into believing that he was in...

claim was disputed by the writers of Steptoe and Son, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who rejected any hatred or conflict. Corbett's nephew released a statement...

February 2020 – via BBC Genome Project. Variety Bandbox Ray Galton & Alan Simpson interview Frankie Howerd Tony Hancock 1924-1968 Arthur English obituary...

'파친코' 이지혜, 각본가 수 휴도 극찬한 신스틸러..."립싱크 전혀 안해" ['Pachinko' Lee Ji-hye, scriptwriter Su-Hyu also praised the scene stealer... "I don't lip sync at all] (in...

(Fleet Air Arm). Ljubomir Simović, 89, Serbian writer, playwright, and scriptwriter, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Jaromír Štětina...

Herbert Lane and is now occupied as offices) Established in 1953 by Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift, the Pike offered Dublin audiences continental-style...

colleagues, friends and family, and Steptoe's writers, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Following numerous complaints, especially from the Corbett family, the...

and Doug Wald; the project eventually moved forward without Page, with scriptwriter Julia Hart replacing Page as the director. Also in 2013, he co-starred...