Talbot Rothwell
Talbot Rothwell ( born November 12, 1916 in Bromley, Kent as Talbot Nelson Conn Rothwell, † February 28, 1981 in Worthing, Sussex ) was a British novelist and screenwriter.
Life
Rothwell worked in many different professions, including as a File Clerk, as a pilot and as a police officer. During the Second World War, he fell into German captivity. There he began with Peter Butterworth to work on entertainment programs for the other prisoners. While Rothwell sketches and lyrics wrote, Butterworth acted as a performer. For both, this developed their later work in show business, as well as a lifelong collaboration.
After his return to England Rothwell worked as a writer for stage, film and radio. He wrote, among other texts for Terry -Thomas and Ted Ray and his plays were performed in London's West End. In 1963 he wrote the screenplay for a comedy about a London taxi driver and his emancipated wife, he offered the producer Peter Rogers. Rogers sought at this time for a new author for his carry-on ... film series, as Norman Hudis, who had already written six comedies for Rogers and his director Gerald Thomas, after moving to the United States was no longer available. The screenplay by Rothwell was well suited to the character of the previous films, so that Gerald Thomas directed it under the title Carry on Cabby as the seventh film of the series. From then on, Rothwell remained the production staff at Rogers closely linked and wrote 20 more screenplays for carry -on- movies as well as two carry-on - television specials at Christmas. When filling the applied according to the type of the Commedia dell'Arte roles Rogers and Thomas attacked mostly the same actors back as Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Joan Sims and Roth Wells friend Peter Butterworth. Roth Wells screenplays parodied among others, the James Bond films ( Carry on Spying ) historical films ( Carry on Cleo Carry on Henry), adventure films ( Carry on Jack ), Western ( Carry on Cowboy ), horror films ( Carry on Screaming ), Doctor Movies ( Carry on Doctor) as well as numerous everyday situations (such as vacation, Dating, strikes and beauty contests ). 1974 wrote Rothwell with Carry on Dick about the legendary British highwayman Dick Turpin his last screenplay for a carry-on film. 1976 has been adapted for the Carry -on Carry on England series with a stage template Roth Wells by Jack Seddon.
1977 Rothwell was honored for his contributions to the arts with the OBE Order. On February 28, 1981 Talbot Rothwell died at the age of 64 after a long illness in Sussex.