Giles Cooper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giles Cooper

British playwright

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1918

Place of Birth: Carrickmines, Ireland

Date of Death: 02-Dec-1966

Profession: screenwriter, playwright

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE (9 August 1918 – 2 December 1966) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television.
He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting".
A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.