Education
Black attended Daniel Stewart"s College in Edinburgh and Manchester University, where he studied philosophy.
Black attended Daniel Stewart"s College in Edinburgh and Manchester University, where he studied philosophy.
Both his 1959 novel In the Wake of a Stranger and his 1962 novel about the Cyprus emergency The High Bright Sun were made into films, Black writing the screenplays in each case. After writing a one-act play and submitting it to the Donald Wolfit Theatre Company, he was asked to join them as an actor. Following service with Royal Air Force Intelligence in the Middle East, he was demobilised in 1946.
In addition, he wrote three stories for Doctor Who in 1966 and 1967.
These stories were The Savages and The War Machines (with Kit Pedler and Pat Dunlop) for William Hartnell"s Doctor. And The Macra Terror for Patrick Troughton.
He novelised all three stories for Target Books. His final cr was for a half-hour supernatural drama called House of Glass, which was made by Television South in 1991.
He was the father of actress Isobel Black.
