Name Martin Woodhouse Role Author | Died May 15, 2011, England Siblings Hugh Woodhouse | |
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Etude in E Major, EL11 (D. Aguado) (Guitar: Martin Woodhouse)
Martin Charlton Woodhouse (29 August 1932 – 15 May 2011) was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels. He was a former medical doctor, pilot, engineer and computer designer.
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- Etude in E Major EL11 D Aguado Guitar Martin Woodhouse
- Biography
- Screen writer
- The Avengers episodes
- The Hidden Truth episodes
- Supercar episodes
- References
Biography
Woodhouse was born in Romford and was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School and Oundle. He read Natural Sciences at Downing College at Cambridge, from 1951 and Medicine at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, completing his postgraduate research at the Medical Research Council's applied psychology unit in Cambridge (where he built "Lettuce", a logical truth computer).
In 1959 Woodhouse was called up for National Service and worked with the Royal Air Force at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, and then at the Farnborough radar research establishment.
After being discharged from military service Woodhouse worked as an author of novels and screen plays, a computer programmer and a stock trader.
Screen writer
Woodhouse wrote the screenplays of seven episodes of the TV series The Avengers. He also wrote for several British TV series such as The Protectors, Emerald Soup, The Hidden Truth, and The Man in Room 17. He also wrote most of the screenplays for the 1961 season of the marionette TV show Supercar in partnership with his younger brother Hugh, and in 1960 two episodes of a similar show for children Four Feather Falls. He is believed to have written in excess of seventy screenplays.