John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer who wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.He created several characters which are now famous, such as The Toff (The Honourable Richard Rollison), Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, Inspector Roger West, The Baron (John Mannering), Doctor Emmanuel Cellini and Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. The most popular of these was Gideon of Scotland Yard, who was the basis for the television series Gideon's Way and for the John Ford movie Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958), also known by its British title Gideon's Day. The Baron character was also made into a 1960s TV series starring Steve Forrest as The Baron.
Sometimes I fail in what I'm trying to do--perhaps it's more than I can cope with. I've no idea ahead of time of what will develop; the plot and any other ideas all happen simultaneously in the . . . if you'll forgive the pompous phrase . . . in the "act of creation", as it were . . . None of it is easy.
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Fact
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He wrote over 565 books under 25 pseudonyms.
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He was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 1946 for services in the United Kingdom's National Savings Movement during World War II.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gideon C.I.D.
TV Series original story by - 22 episodes, 1964 - 1967 based on characters created by - 2 episodes, 1965 based on characters by - 1 episode, 1966 original characters by - 1 episode, 1965
The Baron
TV Series characters and novel - 23 episodes, 1966 - 1967 character - 7 episodes, 1966 - 1967
$250,000
