Ken Taylor

Kenneth Heywood Taylor FRSA (10 November 1922 – 17 April 2011) was an English screenwriter.

Life Taylor was born on 10 November 1922 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. The son of a cotton mill owner, he was educated at Gresham's School, Holt. He won a place at the University of Cambridge, but delayed starting his degree to serve in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. His bad eyesight ruled out being a pilot, but he was trained as a radio operator. In 1941, he was posted to India. Having returned from the war, he chose to abandon his place at Cambridge and instead attended the Old Vic Theatre School, specialising in theatre direction.

Under the name Ken Taylor, he wrote scripts for television drama in a career spanning more than four decades.

In 1964 The Devil and John Brown received the Best Original Teleplay Award of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. In the same year, Taylor was named Writer of the Year by the Guild of Television Writers and Directors (later BAFTA) for his trilogy of television plays The Seekers.

Awards Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Original Teleplay Award, 1964 Guild of Television Writers and Directors' Writer of the Year Award, 1964 Royal Television Society Writers' Award, 1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, 2008