- Donald James
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For other people of the same name, see Don James (disambiguation).
Donald James Born 1931-08-22 Died 2008-04-28 Occupation Television screenwriter
and authorDonald James (aka Donald James Wheal, 1931 to 2008[1] ) was the author of the bestselling novels Vadim, Monstrum, The Fortune Teller and The Fall of the Russian Empire as well as non-fiction books such as The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms, notably Thomas Dresden and James Barwick (originally in collaboration with writer Tony Barwick). He also had an extensive career as a scriptwriter on shows such as The Avengers, Space: 1999, "Joe 90" The Champions, "The Secret Service" The Persuaders!, The Saint, Department S, UFO, The Protectors, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Adventurer, "Terrahawks" and Mission: Impossible. After spending periods in Ireland and France, he lived in London, and his autobiographical account of life in World War II London, World's End, was published in 2005. A second volume of his memoirs, titled White City was published in March 2007.
References
- ^ Gaughan, Gavin (2008-07-24). "Obituary: Donald James Wheal - Writer of 1960s TV scripts and Inspector Vadim novels". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/24/television.television?gusrc=rss&feed=books. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
External links
Donald James at the Internet Movie Database
Space: 1999 Characters - John Koenig
- Helena Russell
- Victor Bergman
- Maya
- Alan Carter
- Paul Morrow
- Tony Verdeschi
- Sandra Benes
- Bob Mathias
- David Kano
- Tanya Alexander
Cast Vehicles Episodes - "Breakaway"
- "Matter of Life and Death"
- "Black Sun"
- "Ring Around the Moon"
- "Earthbound"
- "Another Time, Another Place"
- "Missing Link"
- "Guardian of Piri"
- "Force of Life"
- "Alpha Child"
- "The Last Sunset"
- "Voyager's Return"
- "Collision Course"
- "Death's Other Dominion"
- "The Full Circle"
- "End of Eternity"
- "War Games"
- "The Last Enemy"
- "The Troubled Spirit"
- "Space Brain"
- "The Infernal Machine"
- "Mission of the Darians"
- "Dragon's Domain"
- "The Testament of Arkadia"
- "The Metamorph"
- "The Exiles"
- "One Moment of Humanity"
- "All That Glisters"
- "Journey to Where"
- "The Taybor"
- "The Rules of Luton"
- "The Mark of Archanon"
- "Brian the Brain"
- "New Adam, New Eve"
- "Catacombs of the Moon"
- "The AB Chrysalis"
- "Seed of Destruction"
- "The Beta Cloud"
- "Space Warp"
- "A Matter of Balance"
- The Bringers of Wonder, Part One
- Part Two
- "The Lambda Factor"
- "The Seance Spectre"
- "Dorzak"
- "Devil's Planet"
- "The Immunity Syndrome"
- "The Dorcons"
Production Writers - Pip and Jane Baker
- Tony Barwick
- George Bellak
- Johnny Byrne
- Terrance Dicks
- Terence Feely
- Donald James
- Thom Keyes
- Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.
- Edward di Lorenzo
- Keith Miles
- Christopher Penfold
- Pat Silver-Lasky
- Anthony Terpiloff
- Art Wallace
- David Weir
Directors - Ray Austin
- Tom Clegg
- Kevin Connor
- Charles Crichton
- Val Guest
- Lee H. Katzin
- Robert Lynn
- Peter Medak
- David Tomblin
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