Background
Wilfred Greatorex was born on May 27, 1921 (one source says 1922), in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He was the oldest son of a former soldier.
Wilfred Greatorex
(Russian armies were massed on their borders, waiting for ...)
Russian armies were massed on their borders, waiting for a single shot to send them flooding over Europe. That shot would be fired thousands of miles away - in Washington. Learning that much was easy for intelligence agent Calvin Rudge. Easy, that is, compared to the miracles he would need to perform now.
https://www.amazon.com/Button-Zone-Wilfred-Greatorex/dp/0451141520
1986
Wilfred Greatorex was born on May 27, 1921 (one source says 1922), in Liverpool, United Kingdom. He was the oldest son of a former soldier.
After World War II, instead of enrolling at a university, Wilfred Greatorex started a career in journalism.
At the age of eighteen, Wilfred Greatorex joined the Royal Air Force to serve in a bomber squadron. After World War II, he started a career in journalism, working for the Blackburn Times and the Lancashire Evening Post. Wilfred then moved to London to join Reynolds News, eventually becoming an assistant editor on the magazine John Bull.
Wilfred Greatorex's career in television began in the 1960s when he took a job with Associated Television and began to write scripts for such programs as Danger Man and Man in a Suitcase. His first big success came with the popular drama series, The Plane Makers. It was about struggles for power in and around a fictional aircraft company, ran for three engaging series, during which its dramatic focus evolved from the gritty setting of the factory floor to the commanding elegance of the executive suite. The last format became an instant hit, with viewers and the second series introduced the single-minded character of John Wilder, the domineering managing director, and set the program on its path to the even more intense series The Power Game. In the hiatus between The Plane Makers and The Power Game, producer Rex Firkin and Wilfred devised the Fleet Street newspaper drama Front Page Story.
In the 1970s, Wilfred Greatorex provided scripts for such programs as The Frighteners and Hine, as well as creating his series, Secret Army. In 1972, he created a miniseries, Man from Haven, with Ian Holm in the lead role. It was about an unemployed businessman who plans to make a quick million by blackmailing tax-dodgers with numbered Swiss bank accounts and something to hide. Continuing his favorite theme of power and riches and the way they manipulate the lives of those who pursue it, Wilfred created the six-part saga The Inheritors. Central to the individual stories was the sale of a vast estate, a £6 million tax bill, and the vulture-like gathering of would-be inheritors: newly-rich tycoons, property developers, business corporations, and others.
The last series Wilfred Greatorex worked on was Airline, which aired in 1982. In addition to television work, Greatorex wrote film screenplays, among them Nobody Runs Forever and the co-authored screenplay for The Battle of Britain. He also wrote the novels The Freelancers, Crossover, and The Button Zone.
(Russian armies were massed on their borders, waiting for ...)
1986(This book is about the experiences of William E. Fleming ...)
1957Quotations: "I am opposed to soft-centered characters, which is why I don't create a lot of Robin Hoods. The world's full of hard cases, real villains. And they need to be confronted with other characters just as hard."