Richard Carpenter (screenwriter)
- Richard Carpenter (screenwriter)
Richard "Kip" Carpenter (born 1933) is an English television screenwriter, author and actor who has created a number of popular British television series, the most famous of which internationally is probably "Robin of Sherwood".
Born and brought up in Norfolk, he attended the Old Vic Theatre School before starting an acting career by working in rep. He appeared in occasional films but was mostly active on British TV in the 60s as a character player, on one occasion opposite Tony Hancock in one of his later shows for the BBC, "The Bowmans". In 1969, he created "Catweazle", the children's series about an unfortunate wizard from the 11th century who is accidentally transported to the present-day. This changed the course of his career substantially. During the 1970s he went on to write the series "The Ghosts of Motley Hall", "Dick Turpin", parts of the series "Enid Blyton's Famous Five" and some episodes of "Black Beauty" for ITV companies; and "Cloudburst", "The Boy from Space" and "The King's Dragon" as part of BBC's "Look and Read" programme for schools, some episodes of which he also presented.
In the eighties came the historical adventures "Smuggler" and its later antipodean-based follow-up "Adventurer" and between them, the lavish HTV production "Robin of Sherwood", which ran for three series. Carpenter then worked on a number of series for children and families in the nineties ("The Winjin Pom", "Stanley's Dragon" and "Out of Sight"), some of which ("The Borrowers", "The Return of the Borrowers", and "The Scarlet Pimpernel") were based on classic novels.
Carpenter wrote novelisations of many of the early series he created: "Catweazle", "Cloudburst", "The Ghosts of Motley Hall", "Smuggler", "Robin of Sherwood" and two on "Dick Turpin".
References
* [http://propaganda.com.au/catweazle/carpenter.shtml Biography of Carpenter]
External links
*imdb name|0139441|Richard Carpenter
* [http://www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/richcarp.html Interviews in Sherwood - Richard Carpenter]
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