Roy Minton (born, in Nottingham, England) is an English playwright best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke. He is notable for having written over 30 one-off scripts for London Weekend Television, Rediffusion, BBC, ATV, Granada, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television, including Sling Your Hook, Horace, Funny Farm, Scum, Goodnight Albert, and The Hunting of Albert Crane. He has translated and performed several of his plays overseas and at festivals in the UK, including a reading of his play for Scum at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London; and Gradual Decline at the Riverside Studios London. Minton also wrote the screenplay for Scrubbers, a film from which he disassociates himself totally.
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His television work includes Derek in the factory-set "Lena, O my Lena" by Alun Owen for Armchair Theatre directed by Ted Kotcheff (1960), Ashton in Doctor Who (The End of Tomorrow) directed by Richard Martin (1964), Nobby in The Coming Out Party (the Wednesday play) (1965), Guido in The Big Spender (1965-66), Dr. Lassiter / Willy / Nobby Clark in Dixon of Dock Green (1966 / 68 / 72), Rogers in The Saint (1967), Colour Sgt. O'Brien in the Thames TV series Frontier (1968), D.I Gamble in ATV's Fraud Squad (1968-70), Mick in Sling Your Hook (the Wednesday play) (1969), Martin Stewart in The Patriot Game by Dominic Behan, Thames TV directed by Piers Haggard (1969), Mallory in Callan (1970), O'Neill in Elizabeth R (1971), Ryder in The Persuaders (1971), Reagan in the Protectors (1972), Edward Hammond in BBC TV series, The Brothers (1972-77), Manton in The Professionals (1980), Dan Glover in Enemy at the Door (1980), Jack Blair in LWT's 13 episode series of We'll Meet Again (1982), Brian Wilkinson in Yes, Minister (1982), Jack Vaizey in Inspector Morse (1993), Harry Hopwood in The Bill (1989 / 91), Gerard in Peak Practice (1993), James White in Casualty (1994), John Callard in Dangerfield (1995) He was also an artist known for his paintings, drawings, linocuts and etchings.
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