Trevor Bowen is an English actor and screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

 who has appeared frequently in United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 television dramas since the mid 1960s.

Early life

He is the son of Major General W.O.Bowen and was educated at Dulwich College

Dulwich College

Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, southeast London, England. The college was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift". It currently has about 1,600 boys,...

, Winchester Art School and Queens College, Cambridge where he was president of the Marlowe Society

Marlowe Society

The Marlowe Society is a Cambridge University theatre club for Cambridge students. It is dedicated to achieving a high standard of student drama in Cambridge...

 and appeared in student productions. He then toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. The company employs 700 staff and produces around 20 productions a year from its home in Stratford-upon-Avon and plays regularly in London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and on tour across...

 and appeared in repertory theatres .

Actor

His notable television appearances include; A Family at War

A Family At War

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972. It was created by John Finch and made by Granada Television for ITV. The director was David Giles....

(1970–1972), Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) as Duff Cooper

Duff Cooper

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, First Among Equals

First Among Equals (TV series)

First Among Equals is a ten-part miniseries based on Jeffrey Archer's 1984 novel First Among Equals, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV in 1986....

(1986)
Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed

Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove...

(2001–2007) and Thatcher: The Final Days

Thatcher: The Final Days

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(1991) as Kenneth Baker

Kenneth Baker

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. He also appeared in the film Darling (1965).

Writer

Bowen has been active as a television screenwriter since the 1970s, writing many episodes for television films and series, most notably Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series) and The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994.In the pilot episode Detective Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams...

  but also including contributions to Bognor

Bognor (TV series)

Bognor is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in twenty one episodes between 10 February 1981 and 23 March 1982...

(1981–1982), Nanny

Nanny (TV series)

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(1983), Miss Marple

Miss Marple (TV series)

Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It starred Joan Hickson in the title role, and aired from 1984 to 1992. All twelve original Miss Marple Christie novels have been dramatised. The screenplays were written by T. R...

(1984–1992), the television movie version of The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library (1984 TV film)

The Body in the Library is a 1984 television film adaption of Agatha Christie's 1942 detective novel The Body in the Library which was co-produced by the BBC and the A&E Network. The film uses an adapted screenplay by T. R. Bowen and was directed by Silvio Narizzano...

(1984), Lovejoy

Lovejoy

Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia, a less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue. The episodes were based on a series of picaresque novels by John Grant...

(1991–1993), Hornblower Mutiny

Hornblower (TV series)

Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....

(2001) and Helen West (2002). He has also written several novels.

Publications

• Punctuations, London 1971
• The Emperor's Falcon, London 1980 (ISBN 0-41688330-3)
• The Death of Amy Parris, London 1998 (ISBN 0-14027130-9)
• The Black Camel, London 2002 (ISBN 0-14028512-1)

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