About Stephen Coulter
Lived 1914 – 1986 (aged 71–72). Stephen Coulter was a British crime fiction writer, journalist and screenwriter.
Stephen Coulter (21 August 1914 – 16 July 1986) was a British novelist, journalist, and, as James Mayo, the author of several spy and adventure thrillers.
His series character Charles Hood, a James Bond clone, is an art-loving British spy. Coulter was also friends with Bond creator Ian Fleming. Both men had served in Royal Navy Intelligence during World War II, became reporters, Reuters correspondents and both eventually wrote for the Sunday Times. Coulter helped Fleming with background details in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale.
Two of his novels have been filmed, Hammerhead in 1967 and Embassy in 1972.
Coulter died on 16 July 1986, at the age of 71.
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British writer
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Stephen Coulter was born in 1914 in England.
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Stephen Coulter died on 16 July 1986.
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Stephen Coulter was a crime fiction writer, journalist and screenwriter.
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Stephen Coulter was British.
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