Hugh Whitemore

Hugh John Whitemore (16 June 1936 – 17 July 2018) was an Englishplaywright and screenwriter. His major stage plays included Breaking the Code (1986), about the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, Pack of Lies (1983), based on a Cold War espionage case, and Stevie (1977), a portrait of the poet Stevie Smith, and The Best of Friends (1987), about the friendship Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, shared with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell.

For television, he wrote The Gathering Storm (2002) and Concealed Enemies (1984), and My House in Umbria (2003), an adaptation of the William Trevor novella starring Maggie Smith, the first two of which won him an Emmy Award.