Fonds GB 3184 CE - Clive Exton Archive

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Reference code

GB 3184 CE

Title

Clive Exton Archive

Date(s)

  • 1950s-2007 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

62 boxes

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Scope and content

Film and television screenplays developed by Clive Exton, including: Tobey’s Wednesday, Trevor, Young and Sensitive, Twixt, Jeeves and Wooster, Bethnal Green, The Human Voice, Where I Live and I’ll Have You to Remember, Some Talk of Alexander, Murder is Easy, Strangeways, Turnskin, Sonder Gaard, The Fireeaters, Cobbett, Don Quixote, Day the Call Came, Pirates, Unmarried Man, Angus Wilson, Colossus, Isadora, Dirty Washing, Butcher’s Boy, One Fine Day.

The archive also includes correspondence, ephemera, press cuttings and press packs.

From his earliest days working on ITV's Armchair Theatre productions to his dramatisations for popular, lavishly produced series such as Agatha Christie's Poirot and Jeeves & Wooster, Clive Exton was a screenwriter who brought intelligence and depth to television drama.

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Accruals

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Conditions governing access

Open

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Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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Description identifier

Institution identifier

GB 3184 University of the Arts London: University Archives and Special Collections

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Final

Level of detail

Full

Dates of creation revision deletion

Created 2017
Amended 2024

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

  • Latin

Sources

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