Ted Willis

Highest Rated: 79% Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)

Lowest Rated: 79% Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)

Birthday: Jan 13, 1918

Birthplace: Tottenham, Middlesex, England, UK

Cited in "The Guiness Book of World Records" as the world's most prolific TV writer, Willis created 41 TV serials, wrote 37 stage plays, penned scripts for 39 feature films, churned out radio scripts and generated a dozen novels. He was also one of the pioneers of British "kitchen sink" drama in the late 1950s, producing gritty, realistic stories set in a working-class milieu.