Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse

Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series.

In February 2004 he was voted Britain's most admired contemporary columnist by the British Journalism Review.

His credits, many with life-long friend and collaborator Willis Hall, include satires such as "That Was The Week That Was", "BBC-3" and "The Frost Report" during the early 1960s, the book for the 1975 musical "The Card", "Budgie", "Worzel Gummidge", and "Andy Capp" (an adaptation of the comic strip).

His 1959 book "Billy Liar" was subsequently filmed by John Schlesinger with Tom Courtenay in the part of Billy. It was nominated in six categories of the 1964 BAFTA awards, including Best Screenplay, and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1963; in the early 1970s a sitcom based on the character was quite popular and ran to 25 episodes--a respectable run for a British sitcom, although it has seldom been seen since.

Waterhouse's first screenplay was the film "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961). Without receiving screen credit, Waterhouse and Hall did extensive rewrites on the original script for Alfred Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain" (1966). Waterhouse is also the author of the play "Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell" (1989; Old Vic premiere, 1999), based on the life of journalist Jeffrey Bernard.

His career began at the "Yorkshire Evening Post" and he also wrote regularly for "Punch", the "Daily Mirror", and currently for the "Daily Mail". His extended style book for the "Daily Mirror", "Waterhouse On Newspaper Style", is regarded as a classic textbook for modern journalism. This was followed by a pocket book on English usage intended for a wider audience entitled "English Our English (And How To Sing It)".

He has fought long-standing crusades to highlight the decline in the standards of modern English; for example, founding the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of outpourings of such as "pound's of apple's and orange's" (sic) from greengrocers' shops.

Works

* "Billy Liar" (novel)
* "Billy Liar on the Moon"
* "Bimbo"
* "City Lights: A Street Life"
* "Everything Must Go"
* "Good Grief"
* "Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell"
* "Jubb"
* "Life After City Lights"
* "Maggie Muggins"
* "Mondays, Thursdays"
* "Office Life"
* "Our Song" (play)
* "Palace Pier"
* "Soho"
* "Streets Ahead"
* "The Book of Useless Information"
* "The Theory & Practice of Lunch"
* "The Theory & Practice of Travel"
* "There is a Happy Land" (Michael Joseph, 1962; Penguin Books, 1964)
* "Unsweet Charity"

References

* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=wat-0220 WATERHOUSE, Keith Spencer] International Who's Who. accessed September 3, 2006.


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