Writing

Roy Minton

Born August 28, 1933 · Nottingham, England, UK

Died August 17, 2024 · aged 90

Roy Minton (28 August 1933 – 17 August 2024) was an English playwright and screenwriter 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 L…

Known For

Scum

MovieDramaCrime

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Scum

MovieTV MovieDrama

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Fast Hands

Fast Hands · 1976

MovieTV MovieDrama

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.

Horace

MovieDramaComedy

In Yorkshire, intellectually disabled diabetic Horace works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Scrubbers

Scrubbers · 1982

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

Sling Your Hook

Sling Your Hook · 1969

Sling Your Hook

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

The Hunting of Lionel Crane · 1970

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

MovieTV MovieDrama

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Funny Farm

Funny Farm · 1975

MovieComedyDrama

Alan Wellbeck is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.

Filmography

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Scum

MovieDramaCrime

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Writer

Scum

MovieTV MovieDrama

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Writer

Fast Hands

Fast Hands · 1976

MovieTV MovieDrama

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.

Writer

Horace

MovieDramaComedy

In Yorkshire, intellectually disabled diabetic Horace works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Script

Scrubbers

Scrubbers · 1982

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

Writer

Sling Your Hook

Sling Your Hook · 1969

Sling Your Hook

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

Writer

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

The Hunting of Lionel Crane · 1970

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

MovieTV MovieDrama

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Writer

Funny Farm

Funny Farm · 1975

MovieComedyDrama

Alan Wellbeck is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.

Writer

The Lump

The Lump · 1967

MovieDramaTV Movie

The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.

Scaffolder

The Gentleman Caller

The Gentleman Caller · 1967

The Gentleman Caller

MovieDramaTV Movie

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.

Writer

Play for Today

Play for Today · 1970

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Writer

The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show · 1978

The South Bank Show

SeriesDocumentaryTalk

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play · 1964

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

Writer

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre · 1965

Thirty-Minute Theatre

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

Writer

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Saturday Night Theatre · 1969

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Writer

Half Hour Story

Half Hour Story · 1967

Half Hour Story

18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.

Writer

Plays for Britain

Plays for Britain · 1976

Plays for Britain

An anthology series of six contemporary plays from writers at relatively early stages in their careers.

Writer

The Company of Five

The Company of Five · 1968

The Company of Five

The Company of Five is a 1968 British anthology drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, featuring a repertory cast of five actors—John Neville, Gwen Watford, Ann Bell, Cyril Luckham, and Ray Smith—who appear in different roles each week.

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