Ronald Wilkinson

Background

Mr. Wilkinson was born in the United Kingdom on April 27, 1920.

Career

A medical doctor since 1944, Mr. Wilkinson worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital in Bournemouth. In addition, he served as a medical consultant for the film industry to insurance companies in Britain and the United States.

Throughout his career as a doctor, however, Ronald Wilkinson also wrote plays, novels, and one work of non-fiction under the pseudonym Ronald Scott Thom. He authored twelve plays, the best-known of which, Mountain Air, played for eight months in 1948. In the 1960s his novel Upstairs and Downstairs was adapted for film, as was his novel The Full Treatment, which was retitled Stop Me Before I Kill for its American distribution. In 1984 Mr. Wilsinson wrote an autobiography, Star Doctor.

Achievements

• Ronald Wilkinson is renowned for his works.

Works

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  • Mountain Air 1948
  • Upstairs And Downstairs 1959
  • The Twin Serpents 1966
  • The Last Scramble 1991
  • Star Doctor 1984
  • The Dark Shadow 1964
  • The Full Treatment 1959
  • Second Opinion 1961
  • Experiment with Eros 1971