Ronald Chesney

Born: 1922
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Ronald Chesney was born in 1922. He left school at 16 and became a professional harmonica player. During World War II he was declared unfit for active service after a serious illness, but entertained troops all over the world. After the war he began writing an appearing in radio shows for the BBC. This is where he meet his long term writing partner Ronald Wolfe. Their first TV success was The Rag Trade starring Reg Varney. In 1969 they had written a series that was to lead to great success. This was called on the buses. This was also to lead to the biggest money making movie of 1972 again called On the busesa spin of from the hugely popular show. In 1973 both writers visited America and wrote a series for the American market called Lots of Luck It involve a character playing a lost and found attendant at a Bus depot. Ronald Chesney is married with two children.

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Ronald Wolfe

Born: 08th August 1924
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Ronald Wolfe was born in London. During World War II he worked as a Radio Engineer. After that he began working for the BBC, where in the early 1950's he was to meet Ronald Chesney, writing The Rag Trade together they then wrote Meet The Wife starring Thora Hird. Then along came On The Buses. He has wrote for summer shows, pantomimes etc for such performers as Beryl Reid and Ken Dodd and Tommy Steele in Cinderella. Ronald Wolfe is married with two daughters and lives in London.

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George Layton

Born: 02nd March 1943
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George began writing when he was at drama school and sold one of his early short stories to BBC Radio which he read on Morning Story resulting in a commission to write further stories for the BBC’s Woman’s Hour serial slot. He was delighted to be asked by Michael Morpurgo to be one of the contributing authors to his forthcoming anthology to be published later this year to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the second world war, sories of war and conflict.

George is in frequent demand in Britain and abroad as a visiting author to schools, colleges and universities and for his one-man show the pigeon and me based on two of the stories from his second book. George is best known as an award-winning writer of television comedy although his first play written in 1969, for BBC 2's Thirty Minute Theatre, home is where you hang your hat starring Clive Revill and produced by Innes Lloyd, was a relatively dark piece. He created and wrote two award-winning comedy series, dont wait up starring Nigel Havers and Tony Britton and executive stress starring Penelope Keith. He is also an accomplished actor.

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Jonathan Lynn

Born: 03rd April 1943
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All-rounder Jonathan Lynn began his career acting and writing for theatre, film and television. At 21 he performed in Cambridge Circus, a revue on Broadway with John Cleese and Graham Chapman (among others), and made his TV debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, was nominated for a Plays and Players Award as Most Promising New Actor for his performance in Green Julia (1965); He played Motel The Tailor in the original London cast of Fiddler On The Roof. Lynn also starred in several notable British telefilms, among them Jack Rosenthal's Bar Mitzvah Boy, The Knowledge and Outside Edge, and two British television series: Doctor In The House and My Brother's Keeper, which he also wrote. His film performances include playing Kirk Douglas's butler in his own film Greedy.

Jonathan's most well-received and well-known work to-date has been Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister, which he co-wrote with Antony Jay. It has become something of a British institution. With sharp and astute scripts riddled with great lines and word-play, with characters such as scheming bureaucrat Sir Humphrey and muddling minister Jim Hacker played brilliantly by Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington and with tremendous storylines, the show has gone down as a classic. Jonathan has written novels and screenplays, received countless awards and accolades, including BAFTAs, and has had a book at the top of the best-sellers list for three years. He has been artistic director at the Cambridge Theatre and directed numerous other West End plays.

Lynn wrote and directed his first feature film Clue (1985), a comedy/mystery based on the popular board game with an all-star cast. Lynn then directed his own screenplay Nuns On The Run (1990), which starred Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, and the acerbic comedy My Cousin Vinny (1992). The Distinguished Gentleman, starring Eddie Murphy, was released in 1992 and was followed by Greedy (1994) featuring Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas; Sgt. Bilko (1996) with Steve Martin and Dan Akroyd; and Trial and error (1997) starring Michael Richards and Charlize Theron. Lynn directed The whole nine yards (2000), a critical and audience favourite that featured Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry and Amanda Peet, and dominated the US box-office for three weeks. This was followed by  The fighting temptations (2003), which he directed. Starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyonce Knowles, along with an eclectic ensemble cast, the film is an uplifting tour de force of gospel music. The film won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Picture of 2003.

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Myles Rudge

Born: 08th July 1926
Died: 10th October 2007

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Stephen Lewis

Born: 1936
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Bob Grant

Born: 14th April 1932
Died: 08th November 2003

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Bryan Izzard

Born: 04th July 1936
Died: 27th April 2006

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Bryan Izzard was born in 1932. He went to Oxford reading English and joined the University Drama Group. He attained a teaching diploma but rather than go in to teaching he joined the BBC. Here he went through the general training course and was soon on his way to producing. He produced shows and dramas for the radio and then went over to TV producing current affairs programmes. In the 1960's he became a Light Entertainment Director. In 1966 working for Scottish Television a series he produced won a prize at the Montreux Festival. Returning to ATV a year later he Directed late night chat shows and current affairs magazine programmes. He also produced dramas such as New Scotland Yard and 3 Aquarius programmes. He then went on to direct episodes of The Fenn Street Gang and over 30 episodes of On The Buses. Holiday On The Buses was to mark his debut into Feature Films.

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Stuart Allen

Born: 03rd May 1931
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Denis King

Born: 25th July 1939
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Geoff Unwin

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The song 'It's A Great Life On The Buses' was sang by Quinceharmon. Written by Geoff Unwin and arranged by Max Harris.

Ron Grainer

Born: 11th August 1922
Died: 21st February 1981

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Max Harris

Born: 15th September 1918
Died: 06th March 2004

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Arranged the song 'It's A Great Life On The Buses' which was sang by Quinceharmon. Max Harris and Geoff Unwin with Quinceharmon all combined for the music for the film "On The Buses".

Paul Faraday

Born: 04th July 1936
Died: 27th April 2006

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Fred `Nosher` Powell

Born: 15th August 1928
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