John Antrobus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Antrobus (born 2 July 1933 in Woolwich, London) is a playwright and tv and radio script writer, .

Antrobus gained his first break writing material for the first Carry On film, Carry on Sergeant, and on TV contributing episodes to Eric Sykes' 1960 series, Sykes and a..., and to The Army Game spin off Bootsie and Snudge.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he provided scripts for television series as diverse as That Was the Week That Was, Television Playhouse and Spike Milligan's Milligan in...

Antrobus' plays include The Bed-Sitting Room (1963) (co-written with Milligan) and a sequel from 1983; Cane of Honour (1965), Captain Oates' Left Sock (1969), An Apple A Day (1970) and City Delights (1978).

In October 2005 Antrobus and Ray Galton (with whom he had collaborated on the 1986 sitcom Room at the Bottom and Get Well Soon from 1997) unveiled their play Steptoe and Son - Murder at Oil Drum Lane at the Theatre Royal, York.

The Bed-Sitting Room was made into a film in 1969.