Gerald Savory | |
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Born | Gerald Douglas Savory 17 November 1909 London, England |
Died | 9 February 1996 England | (aged 86)
Occupation(s) | Writer, television producer |
Spouses | Althea Murphy
(
m. 1950; died 1952)Sheila Brennan (
m. 1970) |
Gerald Douglas Savory (17 November 1909 – 9 February 1996) was an English writer and television producer specialising in comedies. [1] [2]
The son of Kenneth Douglas Savory and actress Grace Lane (1877–1956), [3] [4] Savory was educated at Bradfield College and worked as a stockbroker's clerk before turning to the stage ( Hull Repertory Theatre Company 1931–33), first as an actor then a writer. [2] [5]
Savory's play George and Margaret, written while out of work as an actor, ran for two years at Wyndham's Theatre and a year at the Piccadilly. [6] It then transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 86 performances, and was later filmed. [7] [8] His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937). [1]
Savory lived in the USA in the 1940s and 50s writing for film and television, and became an American citizen. [2] After returning to England in the mid 1950s he became a writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined BBC Television, first as Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. [4] He produced the unsuccessful series Churchill's People (1975–76) for the BBC and Love in a Cold Climate (1980) for Thames Television. [9] [10]
Savory was married four times but had no children other than a stepson by his fourth wife. His first marriage, to writer Teo Dunbar, [3] ended in divorce. In 1950, he married American actress Althea Murphy (1916–1952), who died of leukemia in 1952. [11] [12] [13] In 1953, he married actress Annette Carell, who died by suicide in 1967. [14] [15] He was survived by his fourth wife, actress Sheila Brennan, whom he married in 1970. [16] [3]
Savory died in England on 9 February 1996. [17]
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Gerald Savory | |
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Born | Gerald Douglas Savory 17 November 1909 London, England |
Died | 9 February 1996 England | (aged 86)
Occupation(s) | Writer, television producer |
Spouses | Althea Murphy
(
m. 1950; died 1952)Sheila Brennan (
m. 1970) |
Gerald Douglas Savory (17 November 1909 – 9 February 1996) was an English writer and television producer specialising in comedies. [1] [2]
The son of Kenneth Douglas Savory and actress Grace Lane (1877–1956), [3] [4] Savory was educated at Bradfield College and worked as a stockbroker's clerk before turning to the stage ( Hull Repertory Theatre Company 1931–33), first as an actor then a writer. [2] [5]
Savory's play George and Margaret, written while out of work as an actor, ran for two years at Wyndham's Theatre and a year at the Piccadilly. [6] It then transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 86 performances, and was later filmed. [7] [8] His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937). [1]
Savory lived in the USA in the 1940s and 50s writing for film and television, and became an American citizen. [2] After returning to England in the mid 1950s he became a writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined BBC Television, first as Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. [4] He produced the unsuccessful series Churchill's People (1975–76) for the BBC and Love in a Cold Climate (1980) for Thames Television. [9] [10]
Savory was married four times but had no children other than a stepson by his fourth wife. His first marriage, to writer Teo Dunbar, [3] ended in divorce. In 1950, he married American actress Althea Murphy (1916–1952), who died of leukemia in 1952. [11] [12] [13] In 1953, he married actress Annette Carell, who died by suicide in 1967. [14] [15] He was survived by his fourth wife, actress Sheila Brennan, whom he married in 1970. [16] [3]
Savory died in England on 9 February 1996. [17]
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