| Code | DS/UK/523 |
| Person Name | Savory; Gerald (17 Nov 1909 - 9 Feb 1996); Writer; television producer |
| Dates | 17 Nov 1909 - 9 Feb 1996 |
| Activity | Savory's play ‘George and Margaret’, 1937, was written while out of work as an actor, ran for two years at Wyndham's Theatre and a year at the Piccadilly.
It then transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 86 performances, and was later filmed.
His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's ‘Young and Innocent,’ 1937.
Savory lived in the USA in the 1940s and 50s writing for film and television, and became an American citizen.
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. The Betty Willingale archive shows he was a regular contributor to Readers' Reports in the 1970s and 1980s.
He produced the series 'Churchill's People' (1975–76) for the BBC and 'Love in a Cold Climate' (1980) for Thames Television.
Savory died in England on 9 February 1996. |
| Published Works | Plays:
'George and Margaret,' 1937 (377 performances in the West End, filmed in 1940)
'Hand in Glove,' 1944 with Charles K. Freeman based on his own novel Hughie Roddis
'A Likely Tale,' 1957
'A Month of Sundays,' 1957
'So Many Children,' 1959
'Cup and Saucer,' 1961
'Twinkling of an Eye,' 1965
Novels:
'Hughie Roddis,' 1942
'Behold This Dreamer,' 1943
Television:
'Count Dracula,' 1977
'Mapp and Lucia', Series One 1985; Series Two 1986 |
| Source | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Savory (Accessed 07/02/2024) |