Colin Morris (4 February 1916 – 31 March 1996) was a
British playwright
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, screenwriter and actor. His best known work was the screen version of ''
Reluctant Heroes
''Reluctant Heroes'' is a 1951 British comedy filmed in Technicolor. It is based on the farce by Colin Morris. Directed by Jack Raymond, it stars Ronald Shiner as Sergeant Bell. It was produced by Henry Halsted and Byron Film. The play, whic ...
'' (1951) based on his own play. As an actor, he appeared in the 1957 film ''
The Silken Affair''. ''Reluctant Heroes'' premiered in 1950 at the
Whitehall Theatre, and was the first of the
Brian Rix
Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, (27 January 1924 – 20 August 2016) was an English actor-manager, who produced a record-breaking sequence of long-running farces on the London stage, including ''Dry Rot'', '' Simple Spymen'' and ''One for ...
company's
Whitehall farces
The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix, in the 1950s and 1960s. They were in the low comedy tradition of British farce, following the ...
.
[Ray Coone]
Obituary: John Chapman
''The Guardian'', 8 September 2001
Other plays of Morris's include:
* ''
Desert Rats'' (1945)
* ''Woman at Large'' (English Theatre Guild, 1950)
* ''The Terrible Crime of Mr Bat'' (children's drama; Samuel French, 1950)
* ''Don't Bank On It''
* ''Missing, Believed Married'' (English Theatre Guild, 1951)
* ''Italian Love Story'' (English Theatre Guild, 1955)
* ''This Marriage Business'' (English Theatre Guild, 1956)
Published screenplays include:
* ''Quiet Revolution'' (documentary drama)
References
External links
*
Entry for Morris in the Doolee theatrical database*
1916 births
1996 deaths
British male screenwriters
20th-century British dramatists and playwrights
British male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century British male writers
20th-century British screenwriters
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