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Francis Henry Durbridge (25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Francis Durbridge )〕 was an English playwright and author.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Francis Durbridge )〕 Durbridge was born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated at Bradford Grammar School, where he was encouraged to write by his English teacher. He continued to do so while studying English at Birmingham University. After graduating in 1933, he worked for a short time as a stockbroker's clerk before selling a radio play, ''Promotion'', to the BBC at the age of 21.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=IMDB – Accessed 17 March 2011 )〕 In 1938, Durbridge created the character Paul Temple, a crime novelist and detective. With Steve Trent, a Fleet Street journalist and later his wife, Temple solved numerous crimes in the glamorous world of the leisured middle classes, first on radio, then in films and, from 1969 to 1971, in a television series. In addition to the Paul Temple series, Durbridge wrote other mysteries for radio and television, many of which were also produced for Dutch, German and Italian television and radio. In the Netherlands Temple was known as ''Paul Vlaanderen''. Durbridge also forged a successful career as a writer for the stage with seven plays, the last of which, ''Sweet Revenge'', was written in 1991. He also wrote forty-three novels, many of which were adapted from his scripts, sometimes with the help of others.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Independent'' Obituary 13 April 1998 )〕 Durbridge married Norah Lawley in 1940. They had two sons. He died at his home in Barnes, aged 85, in 1998.〔 ==Work for radio== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Durbridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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