Glyn Jones (South African writer)

Glyn Idris Jones (27 April 1931—2 April 2014) was a South African actor, writer and director.

Late in 1964, Jones was contacted by David Whitaker, the story editor on Doctor Who, with a view to the writer contributing a serial. Whitaker though, had been succeeded by Dennis Spooner by the time the scripts of The Space Museum were prepared for production. Jones was dismayed by the editing of his scripts. Spooner had cut much of the humorous content, feeling that such material was inappropriate in what he saw as a high-concept science-fiction story. This was Jones' only contribution to Doctor Who as a writer.

However, Jones would go on to play Krans in 1975's The Sontaran Experiment. This was a rare example of a Doctor Who writer also acting on the programme. He would later write the novelization of his scripts in 1987.

Jones contributed the narration script to A King's Story (1965), a documentary feature film about the life of the former Edward VIII, which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary category. Jones contributed a half dozen scripts for the Children's Film Foundation series The Magnificent Six and 1/2 (1968–69), plus nine scripts for Here Come the Double Deckers (1970–71), on which he was also script editor, a TV series derived from the CFF films. Jones wrote an episode of The Gold Robbers (1969) around the same time. He wrote for the stage as well, with his plays being produced in both England and the United States: Thriller of the Year and Beautiful Forever published by Samuel French Ltd, London, and Red in the Morning by Samuel French in New York City. Rosemary, Oh Brother!, Champagne Charlie, Peter Pan - A Musical Fantasy and The 88, "Third Drawer From The Top all published by DCG Media Group.

In 2006, Jones created a new private eye named Thornton King; charming, urbane and a little bit accident prone and in 2007 the first Thornton King book, Dead on Time was published by Raider International. Since then he has written 5 more in the series; Just in Case, Dead on Target, The Cinelli Vases, Celluloid and Tinsel, and still to be published "Men And Their Toys". Other prose writings include No Official Umbrella (his autobiography), The Journeys We Make, and Angel.

On 4 April 2014, it was announced on Jones' official blog that he had died on 2 April.^[1] At the time of his death, Jones was the earliest surviving credited writer of the series and one of only two living writers from the Hartnell era of the programme, the other being Donald Tosh.

References

External links

• Official website
• Glyn Jones at the Internet Movie Database
• Glyn Jones Interview at Best British TV