Tony Warren (1936–2016)
Author of Behind Closed Doors
Works by Tony Warren
Coronation Street: 3 DVD Box Set — Creator — 1 copy
Associated Works
A Trouser-wearing Character: The Life and Times of Nancy Spain (1997) — Foreword — 13 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Simpson, Anthony McVay (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1936-07-08
- Date of death
- 2016-03-02
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Eccles Grammar School
Clarendon Road Primary School
Elliott-Clarke Theatre School - Occupations
- scriptwriter
actor - Organizations
- Granada Television
- Awards and honors
- Order of the British Empire (Member, 1994)
- Short biography
- Creator of Coronation Street, long-running TV soap opera in the UK.
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Pendlebury, Lancashire, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- Lancashire, England, UK
Members
Reviews
Yes, it is that Tony Warren, the one who created Coronation Street. Behind Closed Doors is set in Manchester in the post-war years and charts the friendship and growing-up of Peter, Joan and Vanda who first end up bundled together as "misfits" on the measuring day for grammar school uniforms. Vanda, a promising dancer were it not for her figure, dreams of a career in the music hall; Joan, living with her gran and young uncle Bruno, struggles to come to terms with her mum's mental illness by show more dreaming a more perfect life in her letters to an American pen friend; and Peter, making his first excursions into the gay underworld of Manchester, may not always like one another very much but nonetheless hang on together and share their secrets (well, nearly).
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Statistics
- Works
- 8
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 38
- Popularity
- #383,441
- Rating
- 3.1
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 11