Career
Essex"s career spanned several decades during which he worked for several television production companies. Essex"s numerous works for the theatre include Bells of Street Martins at the Street Martin"s Theatre in 1953, which he wrote and presented. He also devised and directed Six of One at the Adelphi Theatre in 1964, and was the author of Jolson The al at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 1995.
Essex"s scripts include.
The Gentle Flame (for Julie Andrews), The Shillingbury Blowers (for Trevor Howard), Quincy"s Quest (for Tommy Steele), The Shillingbury Tales (series), the Cuffry series (for Bernard Cribbins) and "The Silent Scream" IMDb - The Silent Scream in the series Hammer House of Horror. His numerous musical scores include Luke"s Kingdom, The Seas Must Live and The Lightning Tree.
Essex was also the author of the Shillingbury Tales (imdb.com (1983) and Skerrymor Bay (1984). Essex married Jeanne Shires in 1956.
The couple had two sons, Martin and Stephen (deceased).