British novelist, writer, and cartoonist, born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to English parents. After receiving engineering training, he worked in communications before deciding to concentrate on making animation. Subsequently, he transitioned into writing, and the success of...Read more his first novel led to its adaptation into the film Percy (1971). He wrote the scripts for several short plays that have appeared in series, such as Play for Today and Thirty-Minute Theater. He died on February 22, 1992, at the age of 70, in Winchester, Hampshire, England, of cancer.
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British novelist, writer, and cartoonist, born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, to English parents. After receiving engineering training, he worked in communications before...Read more deciding to concentrate on making animation. Subsequently, he transitioned into writing, and the success of his first novel led to its adaptation into the film Percy (1971). He wrote the scripts for several short plays that have appeared in series, such as Play for Today and Thirty-Minute Theater. He died on February 22, 1992, at the age of 70, in Winchester, Hampshire, England, of cancer.