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Dateline: 29 May, 2004
Jack Rosenthal Dies TV writer Jack Rosenthal, the husband of actress Maureen Lipman, died this morning at the age of 72. He had been suffering from cancer for some years and died at the North London Hospice with his family at his side. Recently Maureen Lipman had cut down her theatre work to be able to nurse him. She withdrew from a touring production of Enid Bagnold's The Chalk Garden in February last year and "job-shared" with Marti Webb in Thoroughly Modern Millie in October. Born of Jewish parents in Manchester, Rosenthal began his writing career at Granada Television in the 1960s, where he wrote over 150 episodes of Coronation Street. He contributed to the satirical late-night show That Was The Week That Was in 1963 and then went on to work on various sitcoms, including The Dustbinmen and Sadie, It's Cold Outside. He actually began writing one-off plays for televsion in 1963 with Pie in the Sky, which was followed by a number of others, including Another Sunday and Sweet FA (1972), but it was not until 1975 that he became well-known, with The Evacuees. In the next two years he wrote Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) and Spend, Spend, Spend (1977). The Knowledge followed in 1979 and P'tang Yang Kipperbang in 1982. In 1986 he write the one-off drama that became a long-running series, London's Burning. He scripted three films, the best known being Yentl, with Barbra Streisand as co-writer (1983). His last work for television was Wide Eyed and Legless (1993). Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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