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Bob Gale Michael Robert Gale (born May 25, 1951) is an American screenwriter, comic book writer, film producer and director. He is best known for co-writing the science fiction comedy film ''Back to the Future'' with his writing partner Robert Zemec ...

'' Robert Alec Gale (10 December 1933 – 20 April 2018) was an English

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er and businessman.

Life

Gale was born in

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in Bedfordshire and was educated at Bedford Modern School, where he captained the school cricket team from 1951 to 1953. After

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in the Army, he represented

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as a swashbuckling left-handed opening batsman between 1956 and 1965. He forged a successful opening partnership with Eric Russell. His highest score was 200, scored in only five hours, against

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in July 1962. With

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(MCC) teams he toured South America in 1964–65, Canada and the United States in 1967, and the Netherlands in 1968. He established a successful career in the

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following his retirement from first-class cricket. He became a longtime member of the Middlesex general committee, before serving nine years as the chairman of the cricket committee (1989–1998) and President (2001–2003). He retired to Pevensey Bay in

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and died on 20 April 2018, aged 84 years and 131 days. He was the club's ninth oldest living first-class cricketer at his death.

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