Biographie

6 février 1929 · Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

4 septembre 2009 · Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (non divulguée)

Keith Spencer Waterhouse

His entry in "Who's Who" listed "lunch" as his sole recreational activity.

Newspaper columnist and prolific author of books, plays, and TV scripts.

Journalist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist, best known for the diverting novel "Billy Liar", the story of a Saturday in the life of a Walter Mitty-like undertaker's clerk.

He and his partner Willis Hall contributed, uncredited, to the script of Torn Curtain.

He and his partner , Willis Hall adapted author Eduardo de Filippo's play Filumena which was directed by Franco Zeffirelli in London's West End.

I've always wanted to be what I have become, a journey-man writer...I was very influenced by Bennett and Priestley, who could turn their hands to anything. I never had any sort of program at all.

If it had turned out that Jon had an aversion to scarecrows, or if he had complained in a huff that he couldn't see how his distinguished head could be mistaken for a turnip, we probably would have dropped the project there and then. Worzel Gummidge (1979) was Jon Pertwee and Jon Pertwee was Worzel Gummidge (1979).