Frederic Mullally
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Born in 1918, Frederic Mullally's adulthood has straddled three distinct professions, all rooted in the written word. His journalism, from 1937 to 1949, began in India as sub-editor on The Statesman of Calcutta, then as editor of the Sunday Standard of Bombay.
Back in his birthplace, London, he worked as a sub-editor of The Financial News, as co-editor of the weekly Tribune, and finally as political editor and columnist of the Sunday Pictorial.
From 1950 to 1955, he headed the public relations firm of Mullally & Warner, with clients ranging from Audrey Hepburn and Frank Sinatra to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paul Getty, Frankie Laine, the Festival Ballet and Picture Post.
His first novel, the 1958 world best-seller Danse Macabre, was followed by eleven more titles, one of which - Looking for Clancy - was dramatised by BBC TV in five one-hour episodes[1]. Non-fiction titles have included Death Pays a Dividend (1945) with Fenner Brockway, Fascism Inside England (1946), The Silver Salver (1981) and Primo:the Story of Man-Mountain Carnera (1991).
Between books, Mullally compiled and wrote with the collaboration of the BBC, a record album, The Sounds of Time (a dramatised history of Britain 1933-45) and the long-running Penthouse Magazine's strip cartoon Oh, Wicked Wanda!.
In 1949 he abandoned a prospective candidature of the Labour Party for the constituency of Finchley and Friern Barnet. Apart from occasional freelance journalism he is now retired and living in West London.
