Career
Although born in Street Louis, Missouri, after the 1939 outbreak of World World War II, Rose travelled to Canada and volunteered to fight overseas with the Black Watch. After being stationed at bases in Scotland and Europe, at war"s end he returned to live in Britain to work as a screenwriter, marrying an English woman, Tania Price, with whom he would later collaborate. Blessed with the ability to adapt to two distinct cultures, William Rose wrote a number of successful British comedies including.
In the 1970s, he had a brief relationship with Katharine Hepburn.
William Rose died in 1987 in Jersey, Channel Islands. He is buried in the Churchyard at Street.Clement Parish Church, Jersey.
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