Harry Alan Towers

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Harry Alan Towers (born in London on October 19, 1920) is a radio and film producer and screenwriter, who has produced over a hundred feature films and who continues to write and produce well into his eighties.

He sometimes uses the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. Formally a child actor, be became a prolific radio writer while serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. A number of his films and scripts have been based on the works of Sax Rohmer (Fu Manchu, Sumuru), Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None and the Miss Marple series) and the plays of Edgar Wallace.

He collaborated with Jesus Franco during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He is married to the actress Maria Rohm who has appeared in many of his movies.