Michael Gilbert was born on July 17, 1912 in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, England. He was a writer, known for The Men from Room 13 (1959), Breakout (1959) and Das tödliche Patent (1963). He was married to Roberta Marsden and Roberta Mary Marsden. He died on February 8, 2006 in London, England.
He was captured by the Germans in North Africa and was transferred to Italy where he jumped from a POW train with a friend, Lt Tony Davies. Both were later recaptured and moved to an officer's camp in the Po valley.
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A founding member of the Crime Writers' Association of Britain, he was the legal adviser of Raymond Chandler at one time and drew up his will. A soldier in the Royal Horse Artillery in World War II, he was captured in North Africa and imprisoned in Tunis and in Italy, experiences which he drew on for his escape story "Death in Captivity" (1952). He has been called one of the finest of the post-WWII generation of detective writers.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Mysteries
TV Series written by - 1 episode, 1974 adaptation - 1 episode, 1973
Misleading Cases
1971
TV Series television adaptation - 6 episodes
Hadleigh
1971
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Man in Room 17
1966
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Third Man
1965
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Mind of the Enemy
1965
TV Mini-Series writer - 5 episodes
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1964
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Zero One
1963
TV Series story - 1 episode
Das tödliche Patent
1963
TV Movie novel
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1961-1963
TV Mini-Series 3 episodes
Drama 61-67
1962
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Verdict Is Yours
1962
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Kello pysähtyi
1962
TV Mini-Series play - 3 episodes
The United States Steel Hour
1962
TV Series story - 1 episode
The Men from Room 13
1959-1961
TV Series writer - 25 episodes
The Unstoppable Man
1961
novel "Amateur in Violence" - as Michael Francis Gilbert
Theatre Night
1960
TV Series play - 1 episode
No Hiding Place
1959
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Dangerous Ice
1959
TV Movie writer
Blackmail Is So Difficult
1959
TV Movie
Breakout
1959
novel
Fair Game
TV Series 1 episode, 1958 writer - 5 episodes, 1958