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Article: Obituary: John Elliot
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 22, 1997
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John Elliot was one of the BBC's most versatile and
conscientious producers of drama and documentaries.
He is remembered as a very good producer of many of the
Wednesday Plays, and as the author of Mogul, which began in 1965 as
13 dramas about the oil industry and then was converted into the
series of a further 123 episodes of The Troubleshooters, mainly
produced by Tony Read, the original story editor. He also produced
the outstanding series of film documentaries The War In the Air.
After schooling at Berkhamsted, Elliot was reading English at
Klng's College London when the Second World War was declared. He
was opposed to the idea of killing anyone himself, so he
immediately volunteered ...