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Occupation
  
Screenwriter, author

Name
  
John Howlett

Children
  
Isabel, Suzanne

Alma mater
  
Jesus College, Oxford

Nationality
  
English


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Notable works
  
if....; Cry; Love Of An Unknown Soldier

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John Howlett is an English author and screenwriter living in Rye, East Sussex.

Contents

He started his writing career by co-writing the screenplay of the 1968 feature film if...., directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Education

Howlett attended Tonbridge School and Jesus College, Oxford where he studied history.

Screenwriting Credits

His writing credits cover film and TV and include both writing and adaptation.

  • 1999 Doomwatch: Winter Angel (TV movie) (writer)
  • 1999 Darkness Falls (writer)
  • 1993 Colpo di coda (TV movie) (writer)
  • 1992 Touch and Die (TV movie) (writer)
  • 1992 Bonne chance Frenchie (TV mini-series) (adaptation)
  • 1990 Where Were You That Night? (TV Movie)
  • 1989 Crossing the Line (TV Series)
  • 1988 Game, Set, and Match (TV series)
  • 1985 Murder of a Moderate Man (TV mini-series)
  • 1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series)
  • 1968 if.... (from an original story called "Crusaders" & script)
  • Other Work

    He was also a researcher on the 1975 TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager. He is the author of the 1980 biography of Frank Sinatra, together with a biography of James Dean and a number of works of fiction.

    His full book credits are:

    Fiction

  • The Christmas Spy (1975)
  • Tango November (1976)
  • Maximum Credible Accident (1980)
  • Orange (1985)
  • Murder of a Moderate Man (1985)
  • Cry (1995)
  • Love Of An Unknown Soldier (2010)
  • The Long Road Home (Not yet published)
  • When War Came Again (Not yet published)
  • First Snow Of Winter (Not yet published)
  • Non fiction

  • James Dean (1975)
  • Frank Sinatra (1979)
  • Theatre

  • Dean - West End musical with Robert Campbell. Subsequently produced in Japan by the Takarazuka Revue
  • Lorca - Musical with Theo Jaskolkowski & Robert Campbell
  • Radio - (BBC Radio 4)

  • Soldier, Poor man, Beggarman, Thief
  • Next Man Through the Door
  • Gone for Soldiers
  • Maximum Credible Accident
  • References

    John Howlett Wikipedia