John Howlett (4 April 1940 – 4 March 2019)^[1] was an English author and screenwriter who lived in Rye, East Sussex.

He started his writing career by co-writing the screenplay of the 1968 feature film if...., directed by Lindsay Anderson.^[2]

Education

Howlett attended Tonbridge School and Jesus College, Oxford where he studied history.

Screenwriting Credits

His writing credits cover film and TV and include both writing and adaptation.^[2]

• 1999 Doomwatch: Winter Angel (TV movie) (writer)
• 1999 Darkness Falls (writer)
• 1993 Colpo di coda (TV movie) (writer)
• 1992 Touch and Die (TV movie) (writer)
• 1992 Bonne chance Frenchie (TV mini-series) (adaptation)
• 1990 Where Were You That Night? (TV Movie)
• 1989 Crossing the Line (TV Series)
• 1988 Game, Set and Match (TV series)
• 1985 Murder of a Moderate Man (TV mini-series)
• 1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series)
• 1968 if.... (from an original story called "Crusaders" & script)

Other work

He was also a researcher on the 1975 TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager. He is the author of the 1980 biography of Frank Sinatra, together with a biography of James Dean and a number of works of fiction.

His full book credits are:^[3]

Fiction

• The Christmas Spy (1975)
• Tango November (1976)
• Maximum Credible Accident (1980)
• Orange (1985)
• Murder of a Moderate Man (1985)
• Cry (1995)
• Love Of An Unknown Soldier (2010)
• A Long Road Home (2012)
• When War Came Again (2012)
• First Snow Of Winter (2012)

Non fiction

• James Dean (1975)
• Frank Sinatra (1979)

Theatre

• Dean - West End musical with Robert Campbell. Subsequently produced in Japan by the Takarazuka Revue
• Lorca - Musical with Theo Jaskolkowski & Robert Campbell

Radio - (BBC Radio 4)

• Soldier, Poor man, Beggarman, Thief
• Next Man Through the Door
• Gone for Soldiers
• Maximum Credible Accident

References

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005I4OWWK/ref=docs-os-doi_0

External links

• John Howlett at IMDb