John Lucarotti
John Lucarotti | |
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| Born | John V. Lucarotti 20 May 1926 |
| Died | 20 November 1994 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | screenwriter |
John Lucarotti (20 May 1926, Aldershot, Hampshire – 20 November 1994) was a British screenwriter.
Lucarotti began his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, writing on over 200 various scripts for them as well as for Canadian television. He then moved back to England where he had a prolific career. He created the television series Operation Patch, which he then novelised, The Ravelled Thread and The Panther's Leap. He wrote ten episodes for The Avengers, thirty-two episodes for The Troubleshooters and contributed fifteen episodes to the BBC's Doctor Who in the 1960s being the three serials Marco Polo, The Aztecs and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. He subsequently novelised his scripts for Target Books. He also contributed a script for what ultimately became the 1975 serial The Ark in Space, but it was rewritten by script editor Robert Holmes, and Lucarotti receives no on-screen credit. He also contributed to, among others, Star Maidens, The Onedin Line, Lieutenant Hornblower, Into The Labyrinth, Kippers and White Wine, United!, Moonbase 3 and Joe 90.
John Lucarotti also wrote for French and Swiss television. He died in Paris on 20 November 1994.
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