Edward Boyd

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Edward "Eddie" Boyd (born May 11, 1916 in Stevenston , North Ayrshire , Scotland , † December 17, 1989 in Glasgow ) was a Scottish crime writer and screenwriter for films, TV series and radio plays.

Life

He has written many series for BBC Scotland and Granada Television as well as numerous radio plays for radio.

1967 got Boyd along with Peter Yates and George Markstein , the award from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) for Best Original Screenplay for the film Million Robbery ( Robbery ). In 1971 he was also honored by the WGGB with the award for the best radio series ( Best British Radio Features Script ).

Badgers in the Owl Light or The Search of Peter Talion

Badgers in the Owl Light or Peter Talion's Search is one of Boyd's most famous radio plays. It is a three-part series that was produced by Südwestfunk .

Peter Talion infiltrates a Scottish rural commune that lives in the old Balphinn House. He is on the hunt for his brother's murderer and witnesses how the alternative residential community has to defend itself against the anger of angry villagers. But the search is also developing very differently than Peter had thought.

The thriller derives its special tension on the one hand from the concise voice of Christian Brückner , who speaks the narrative title character with vocal nuances. On the other hand, all spoken scenes are backed by the music of an acoustic guitar , which through its constant variations only provides a few chords for a hypnotic atmosphere and increasing tension.

Directed by Heiner Schmidt , the speakers for the main characters were Christian Brückner, Manfred Zapatka , Friedhelm Scheele , Dieter Zimmer , Heidemarie Rohweder , Jochen Busse , Lana Löber , Ilka Höttger , Karin Schroeder , Wolfgang Büttner , Antje Hagen , Manfred Georg Herrmann , Hans Röhr , Wolfgang Reinsch , Jürgen Andreas and Ernst Jacobi .

Filmography (selection)

as a screenwriter
  • 1954: Crime on Our Hands (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1960–63: The Odd Man (TV series, 32 episodes)
  • 1962: Saki (TV miniseries, 8 episodes)
  • 1966: The Corridor People (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 1966–67: The Dark Number (TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 1967: Million Robbery (Robbery)
  • 1967–68: The Wednesday Play (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1970: Confession (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1970: Menace (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1971: Paul Temple (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1972: Late Night Theater (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1971–73: The View from Daniel Pike (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1976: Crown Court (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1977: The XYY Man (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1978: Huntingtower (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1981: Strangers (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1982: Badger by Owl-Light (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1982: The Chinese Detective (TV series, 2 episodes)

Radio plays (selection)

year German title Number and duration of the individual parts Director Remarks
1969 Five fingers make one hand 56, 54 and 52 min
(alternatively 40, 45, 42 and 38 min)		 Heiner Schmidt Steve Gardiner Trilogy II *
1970 The black candle 57, 57 and 59 min Gustav Burmester WDR, Steve Gardiner Trilogy I.
1971 No man goes into the same river twice 52, 54 and 54 min Heiner Schmidt *
1972 The devil is always painted black 52, 48 and 47 min Heiner Schmidt Steve Gardiner Trilogy III *
1975 Badgers in the Owl Light or
The Search of Peter Talion		 34, 36 and 39 min Heiner Schmidt *
1986 Bullivants Match or Curlew in Autumn 50, 49 and 53 min Peter Michel Ladiges *
1989 Spanish locks 44, 49 and 52 min Bernd Lau *

In Germany , the radio plays marked with * by Hubert von Bechtolsheim and Marianne de Barde were broadcast into German and staged as radio plays by the then Südwestfunk (now SWR ). Since 2016, all radio plays have been available as MP3 CDs and as downloads.

Awards

  • 1967: Best British Original Screenplay at the WGGB Awards for Robbery
  • 1971: Best British Radio Features Script at the WGGB Awards for The Wolf Far Hence

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writers 'Guild Awards 1967 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In: Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
  2. ^ Writers 'Guild Awards 1971 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In: Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyd, Eddie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish crime writer and screenwriter for films, TV series and radio plays
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Stevenston , Ayrshire , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1989
Place of death Glasgow