Peter Draper

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Peter Draper (born April 28, 1925 in Porthcawl , Wales , † February 9, 2004 in Exeter , Devon ) was a British screenwriter and playwright , who through the film What comes next ...? gained international fame.

life and career

Born in 1925 in the small Welsh town of Porthcawl, Peter Draper worked during his studies at the art school at the West of England Children's Theater and then moved to the Bristol Old Vic Company as an actor and stage manager. Draper decided to become a writer and earned a steady income from working in an advertising agency before setting up the Milton Head Pottery Company in Brixham, Devon with two partners in 1950. The pottery was in the Old Pound House on Milton Street in Brixham . The Milton Head Pottery ran from 1950 to 1959, Draper was an artist and designer there for several years co-owner of the "Brixham Pottery" before he decided in 1958 to live as a full-time author. He began writing scripts for television series and television films. In the 1950s and 1960s, this resulted in works for television series such as ITV Television Playhouse , The Plane Makers , Front Page Story and The Power Game . He delivered his first screenplay for the big screen in 1964 for Michael Winner's drama The System . In 1966, Draper wrote the play A Season in Love , which was published by Penguin Books . In 1967 Peter Draper turned back to the cinema. This time he wrote the script for Winner's romantic drama What comes next ...? starring Oliver Reed and Orson Welles . In 1970 the screenplay for the screen drama The Buttercup Chain followed , filmed by director Robert Ellis Miller and with the cast Hywel Bennett, Leigh Taylor-Young and Jane Asher . After that, Draper largely returned to television as a screenwriter. In the 1970s he still worked for television series such as Perils of Pendragon and Poldark . His last work for television was in 1983, where he wrote an episode for the TV series Jemima Shore Investigates .

Draper died on February 9, 2004 at the age of 78 at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, Devon. He left four daughters. His grandson is the British film director and editor Benjamin Barfoot .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

  • 1964: The System
  • 1967: What comes next ...? (I'll Never Forget What's'isname)
  • 1970: The Buttercup Chain

watch TV

  • 1958–1963: ITV Television Playhouse (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 1963: The Plane Makers (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1965: Sunday Out of Season (TV movie)
  • 1965: Front Page Story (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1965–1969: The Power Game (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 1974: Perils of Pendragon (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1975: Poldark (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1983: Jemima Shore Investigates (TV series, 1 episode)

Dramas

  • 1966: A Season in Love

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Draper: A Season in Love , Penguin Books, 1966, 236 pages
  2. ^ Dates of death of Peter Draper in: Funeral-Notices
personal data
SURNAME Draper, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Porthcawl , Wales
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2004
Place of death Exeter , Devon , England, UK