Philip Purser

For the science fiction writer, see Philip Purser-Hallard.

Philip Purser (born 28 August 1925) is a British television critic and novelist.

A contributor to the News Chronicle in the 1950s, he was television critic of The Sunday Telegraph for twenty-six years before being sacked in the mid-1980s by Peregrine Worsthorne, the then editor. Purser has also co-authored three editions of Halliwell's Television Companion (1982, 1986, originally Halliwell's Teleguide 1979) and wrote a TV film The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (Peek-A-Boo) on the wartime erotic entertainer for Thames in 1978. A biography of Dixey (co-authored with Jenny Wilkes) was published in the same year.

In recent years Philip Purser has contributed obituaries to The Guardian. His wife is the crime writer Ann Purser; they have two daughters and one son.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Peregrination 22. Jonathan Cape Books 1962
• Four Days to the Fireworks. Hodder & Stoughton 1964
  • other edition: Sphere Books 3/1970, ISBN 0-7221-7057-1
• The Twentymen. Hodder & Stoughton 1/1967, ISBN 0-340-02356-3
• Night of Glass. Hodder & Stoughton 12/1968, ISBN 0-340-04422-3
• Holy Fathers Navy. Hodder & Stoughton 6/1971, ISBN 0-340-12535-9
• Lights in the Sky. Severn House Publishers 11/2004, ISBN 0-7278-6196-2

Non Fiction

• Friedrich Harris: Shooting the Hero. Quartet Books 5/1990, ISBN 0-7043-2759-7
• Poeted: Final Quest of Edward James. Quartet Books 2/1991, ISBN 0-7043-0139-9

External links

• Philip Purser at IMDb