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Charles Wood

Writer
6 August 1932 to 1 February 2020

A British playwright who established himself in the 1960s at the RSC, Wood went on to write the likes of Help! (1965), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and The Bed Sitting Room (1969) for the screen. He received BAFTA nominations for The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), A Breed of Heroes (1994) and Iris (2001), winning for Tumbledown (1988).

Read Charles Wood's Guardian obituary.