Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for ''
Love on the Dole
''Love on the Dole'' is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working-class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film.
The novel
Walter Greenwood's novel (1933) was written during the early 1930s as a respons ...
'' (1934).
Born in
Heaton Moor
Heaton Moor is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is one of the Four Heatons and borders Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Heaton Mersey. Heaton Moor has Victorian ...
,
Stockport,
Cheshire, the son of a bank manager, Gow attended
Altrincham County High School. After training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher. In the late 1920s he made several educational
silent films
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, whe ...
with his pupils: ''The People of the Axe'' (1926) and ''The People of the Lake'' (1928) recreated life in ancient Britain, the latter produced 'with the approval of'
Sir William Boyd Dawkins; ''The Man Who Changed His Mind'' (1928) was a
Boy Scout adventure with a cameo from
Robert Baden-Powell
Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, ( ; (Commonly pronounced by others as ) 22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the wor ...
; ''The Glittering Sword'' (1929) was a medieval parable about disarmament.
Writing occupied his spare time during his years as a schoolmaster, and he wrote several plays for the
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. At the age of 35 he had his first professional production, in London and New York, with ''Gallows Glorious'' (1933), a play about the American slavery abolitionist
. The play was a huge success.
played the lead, and also made her first film appearance in the Gow-scripted ''
''.
In 1937 Hiller and Gow married. They later moved to
, where they raised two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b. 1942). He lived with Hiller at their home, "Spindles", until his death in 1993. He continued writing plays into his eighties, providing material for his wife in adaptations of ''