Robert Barr(1909-1999)

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Robert Barr was born on 22 December 1909 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for S.O.S. Scotland Yard (1956), Gazette (1968) and Hadleigh (1969). He was married to Jane Connell. He died on 30 January 1999 in Isle of Bute, Refrewshire, Scotland, UK.

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S.O.S. Scotland Yard

7.0

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1956

Gazette

7.7

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Hadleigh

7.0

TV Series

Writer

Scotland Yard

8.3

TV Series

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Airey Neave: A Will of Steel
TV Movie
- dramatisation: Neave in wartime
- 1980
Secret Army
8.5
TV Series
- writer
- 1977–1979
Enemy at the Door
7.9
TV Series
- writer
- 1978
The Mackinnons
6.3
TV Series
- writer
- 1977
Softly Softly: Task Force
7.3
TV Series
- writer
- 1969–1976
Hadleigh
7.0
TV Series
- deviser
- creator
- 1969–1976
Spy Trap
7.6
TV Series
- creator
- writer
- 1972–1975
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
7.2
TV Series
- short story
- 1973
Barlow at Large
6.7
TV Series
- writer
- 1973
The View from Daniel Pike
8.4
TV Series
- writer
- 1973
Z Cars
7.1
TV Series
- writer
- script
- 1962–1971
Codename
8.7
TV Series
- writer
- 1970
Parkin's Patch
6.9
TV Series
- written by
- 1969–1970
Softly Softly
7.0
TV Series
- writer
- 1966–1969
The Expert
8.2
TV Series
- writer
- 1968–1969

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Born
- December 22, 1909
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
Died
- January 30, 1999
- Isle of Bute, Refrewshire, Scotland, UK(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Jane Connell1936 - 1996 (her death, 1 child)
Other works
Playwright: "To Tell You the Truth". NOTE: Filmed as The Oracle (1953).

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Trivia
As a BBC radio correspondent, he was one of four reporters chosen before D-Day to shadow Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower from D-Day through the end of World War II.