''Run For Your Life'' (known in the US as ''Soldier and Me'') is a children's

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Lionel Davidson Lionel Davidson FRSL (31 March 192221 October 2009) was an English novelist who wrote spy thrillers. Life and career Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull in Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school ...

writing as David Line, first published in 1966. An English boy, Woolcott, and his friend Szolda (whom he calls Soldier) are on the run because Szolda has overheard two men plotting a murder. Filmed as a TV series in 1974 using the US title ''Soldier and Me'' starring

Gerry Sundquist Gerald Christopher Sundquist (6 October 1955 – 1 August 1993) was an English actor. Early life Sundquist was born in Chorlton and grew up there with his older brother and younger sister. He developed an interest in acting at primary schoo ...

as Woolcott and Richard Willis as Szolda. 9 30 minute episodes made by Granada Television.The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia 0851708781 Mark J. Docherty, Alistair D. McGown - 2003 "Gerald Sundquist (Jim Woolcott), Milos Kirek ('Boss'),

Derrick O'Connor Derrick O'Connor (3 January 1941 – 29 June 2018) was an Irish theatre and character actor. O'Connor was best known for his performance as South African mercenary Pieter Vorstedt in ''Lethal Weapon 2'' and for his roles in three Terry Gilliam ...

(Driver), Richard Ireson, Constantin de Goguel (henchmen) Based on the novel Run For Your Life by David Line (first UK publication 1966, Jonathan Cape) Adapted by David ...

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1966 British novels British children's novels Jonathan Cape books 1966 children's books {{1960s-child-novel-stub