Jack Rosenthal

Jack Rosenthal, CBE (8 September 1931 - 29 May 2004) , was a playwright, who wrote several early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and a number of successful plays and films.

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CBE - 8 September - 1931 - 29 May - 2004 - Playwright - ITV - Soap opera - Coronation Street

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He was born in Manchester, and after National Service in the Royal Navy he worked in advertising before becoming a regular writer for Coronation Street in the 1960s.

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Manchester - National Service - Royal Navy - Advertising

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Rosenthal won three BAFTA awards for Bar Mitzvah Boy (about a Jewish boy's Bar Mitzvah), The Evacuees (based in his own war-time evacuation) and Spend, Spend, Spend (about a football pools winner, Viv Nicholson). He created London's Burning as a one-off drama in 1986, and this later developed into a long-running TV drama of the soap opera- like type disdained by him. He also wrote the film about cabbies in training, The Knowledge.

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BAFTA - Bar Mitzvah Boy - Bar Mitzvah - Evacuation - Football pools - London's Burning - 1986 - Drama - Soap opera - The Knowledge

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In 1983 Rosenthal co-wrote the film Yentl with Barbra Streisand.

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1983 - Yentl - Barbra Streisand

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He married comedy actress Maureen Lipman in 1974, and they have two children, Amy and Adam.

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Maureen Lipman - 1974

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Rosenthal was awarded the CBE in 1994.

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CBE - 1994

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He died on 29 May 2004, following a long battle against multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.

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Multiple myeloma - Cancer

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