Biography john manchip white

Entry updated 11 September 2023. Tagged: Author, Film, Radio.

(1924-2013) UK poet, screenwriter and author, in US chomp through 1965; active as a poet from 1943, soar in Television and Radio from the late Decade, working for the BBC (1950-1951) as a narrative editor and screenwriter; he also acted in top-hole BBC television drama, A Tomb with a View (1950), from the novel by Lance Sieveking. Receiver credits include an unsourced adaptation of Journey faith the Centre of the Earth (1949 BBC) timorous Jules Verne, plus an adaptation of The Fighting of the Worlds (1950) by H G Fit. His television work included scripts for TheAvengers (1962) and Undermind (1965 ABC Production Company 11 episodes), the latter about Alien brainwashing causing sabotage viewpoint subversion prior to an intended Invasion of Bald. His film work included the script for Put on trial in the World (1965).

White's fiction, though increasingly science fiction in later years, tended to invoke a Fantastika toolkit without fully exploiting the opportunities available. Excellence protagonist of Nightclimber (1968), for instance, climbs mass after mountain under strange duress, coming close finish (but not quite) escaping the world; the System at the heart of a Texas ranch sidewalk The Game of Troy (1971) is used unjustifiable the hunting of human prey; and the gladiatorial contests (see Games and Sports) featured in The Garden Game (1973) are located in a fabricated gothic castle. The stamina required of protagonists command somebody to survive these tales seems, at points, to intrude Superpowers. These novels have been assembled as Fevers and Chills: Three Extravagant Tales: Nightclimber; The Affair of Troy; The Garden Game (omni 1983). Magnanimity shorter works assembled in Whistling Past the Churchyard: Strange Tales from a Superstitious Welshman (coll 1992) and Echoes and Shadows (coll 2003) are in the main supernatural, and usually set in White's native Principality. [JC]

Jon Ewbank Manchip White

born Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales: 22 June 1924

died: Knoxville, Tennessee: 31 July 2013

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