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Giles Cooper

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Giles Stannus Cooper
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Aug. 9, 1918, Carrickmines, County Dublin, Ire.
Died:
Dec. 2, 1966, London, Eng. (aged 48)
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Giles Cooper (born Aug. 9, 1918, Carrickmines, County Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 2, 1966, London, Eng.) was one of the most original and prolific writers in Britain for the modern mass communications media. Educated at Lancing College near Brighton and in France, Cooper then studied at drama school and, after military service during World War II, was an actor for several years. In radio, for which he began writing in 1955, he found a medium ideally suited to his talents, and in such successful radio plays as “Mathry Beacon” (1956), “Under the Loofah Tree” (1958), and “Unman, Wittering and Zigo” (1958), ...(100 of 207 words)

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