Background
WATERHOUSE, Keith was born on February 6, 1929. Son of Ernest Waterhouse and Elsie Edith Waterhouse.
WATERHOUSE, Keith was born on February 6, 1929. Son of Ernest Waterhouse and Elsie Edith Waterhouse.
Billy Liar, Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving, Lock Up Your Daughters. Plays: Mr. and Mistress Nobody 1986, Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell 1989, Bookends 1990. Plays (with Willis Hall) include: Billy Liar 1960, Celebration 1961, All Things Bright and Beautiful 1963, Say Who You Are 1965, Whoops-a-Daisy 1968, Children’s Day 1969, Who’s Who 1972, The Card (musical) 1973, Saturday, Sunday, Monday (adapted from play by de Filippo) 1973, Filumena (adapted from de Filippo) 1977, Worzel Gummidge 1981, Budgie (musical) 1988. television series: Budgie, Queenie’s Castle, The Upper Crusts, Billy Liar, The Upchat Lincolnshire, The Upchat Connection, Worzel Gummidge, West End Tales, The Happy Apple, Charters and Caldicott. television films: Charlie Muffin 1983, This Office Life 1985, The Great Paperchase 1986.Writer of the Year.
Novels) There is a Happy Land 1957, Billy Liar 1959, Jubb 1963, The Bucket Shop 1968, Billy Liar on the Moon 1975, Office Life 1978, Maggie Muggins 1981, In the Mood 1983, Thinks 1984, Our Song 1984, Bimbo 1990. Others: Cafe Royal (with Guy Deghy) 1956, Writers’ Theatre (Editor) 1967. The Passing of the Third-floor Buck 1974, Mondays, Thursdays 1976, Rhubarb, Rhubarb 1979, Fanny Peculiar 1983, Mrs Pooter’s Diary 1983, Waterhouse At Large 1985, Collected Letters of a Nobody 1986, The Theory and Practice of Lunch 1986, The Theory and Practice of Travel 1988, Waterhouse on Newspaper Style 1989, English Our English 1991.
Kingman Committee on Teaching ofthe English Language 1987-1988.
Married 2nd Stella Bingham in 1984 (divorced in 1989).