Norman Hudis

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Norman Hudis (27 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was an English writer for film, theatre and television, and is most closely associated with the first six of the

Carry On... film series, for which he wrote the screenplays until he was replaced by Talbot Rothwell
.

Life and career

Born in

RAF and served in the Middle East writing for Air Force News. Like many other post-war writers his first foray into entertainment was writing for camp concerts. After the war Hudis decided to become a playwright, but only one of his plays Here Is The News met with critical success. This was enough to get him noticed by Pinewood Studios
, who offered him a job as trainee screenwriter. During the two years he spent there he failed to get any of his screenplays into production.

Hudis left Pinewood and became a freelance writer and was soon to become a prolific screenwriter of

The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-O, Cannon and Baretta
.

Hudis continued to write for film, TV and theatre. He was the co-writer of the long-running play

anti-Semitic actor Eric Portman.[3] He died at the age of 93 on 8 February 2016.[4] His son, Stephen R. Hudis
is a Hollywood director. His sister Sylvia Holness [Hudis] lives in England. In 2008 Norman Hudis wrote his autobiography No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On, published by Apex Publishing Ltd.

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners". Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  2. ^ "Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diaries by FF8282". Sindenproductions.com. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
  3. ^ "Dinner with Ribbentrop". Rudeguerrilla.org. 6 May 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
  4. ^ "Carry On writer Norman Hudis dies aged 93 - BBC News". BBC News. 9 February 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2016.

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Preceded by
First
Carry On
films scriptwriter
1958 - 1962 		Succeeded by
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