John Foley (author)
Cedric John Foley[1] MBE (7 March 1917 – 8 November 1974) was a British Army officer, author, broadcaster, and public relations specialist.
He was educated at
His love of tanks was reflected in The Boilerplate War, a book of recollections of the early days of armoured warfare, and Mailed Fist, telling of his tank exploits in Normandy in 1944. He drew on his military experience in several other successful novels, including Death of a Regiment and Bull and Brass.
He spent five years as a military reporter and later served in the Directorate of Public Relations at the War Office.
On retiring from the Army, he continued in public relations, and became prominent as a consultant, being particularly concerned with the problems of American-owned businesses in Britain. He was also a director of Campbell-Johnson Ltd.
A man of wide interests, he was also known as a broadcaster and scriptwriter, and was military advisor to the popular ITV comedy show, The Army Game.
He is also the author of two
- Man in the Moon (1960, starring Kenneth More and Shirley Anne Field), based on the screenplay by Bryan Forbes and Michael Relph (Four Square Books), which is credited on the back cover[1]
- Very Important Person (1961, starring James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips), based on the screenplay by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth (Mayfair Books), which is cited on the back cover, the title page and (by implication in) a joint copyright shared by John Foley and Jack Davies[2][3]
References
- ^ a b AbeBooks: Man in the Moon, Foley, John (based on the screenplay by Bryan Forbes and Michael Relph) Retrieved 2012-09-08
- ^ Amazon UK: Very Important Person. A book written by J. Foley, based on a film script by Jack Davies. Retrieved 2012-09-08
- ^ AbeBooks: Very Important Person, Foley, John (based on the film script by Jack Davies) Retrieved 2012-09-08
- Obituary, The Times, 13 November 1974
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