David Cook (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

David Cook (writer)

British actor and writer

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1940

Place of Birth: Preston, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Sep-2015

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, author, novelist, television actor, broadcaster

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About David Cook (writer)

  • David Kenneth Cook (21 September 1940 – 16 September 2015) was a British author, screenwriter and actor.
  • He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel Walter, and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme Rainbow.
  • He was born in Preston, Lancashire.
  • He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, from 1959 to 1961.
  • His first role was in the 1962 film adaptation of A Kind of Loving.
  • Thereafter, he worked on both stage and television.
  • He began to write novels and also for television in the early 1970s. He presented the first and second series of Rainbow, the first episode of which aired in October 1972.
  • He left the show to concentrate on his writing before the third series in 1973, and was replaced as presenter by Geoffrey Hayes.Cook went on to write Walter, a novel about a young man with learning disabilities.
  • It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1978, and was later made into a film of the same name, starring Ian McKellen and directed by Stephen Frears.
  • It was broadcast on Channel 4's opening night.
  • Cook's follow-up novel, Winter Doves, was also filmed with McKellen, and a 2009 radio play, Walter Now, saw Walter become a pensioner.
  • It also focused on reproductive rights for people with learning disabilities.Cook continued to act, and provided several of the screenplays for the BBC TV series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, a series based on his 1986 novel Missing Persons. He died on 16 September 2015, only five days before his 75th birthday.
  • He was survived by his long-term partner, novelist and playwright John Bowen.

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