David Cook
David Cook was a British author, screenwriter and actor.
Works
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
Release Date:1996-01-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:27
Vote Count:16
Second Best
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Release Date:1994-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:38
Closing Numbers
Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.
Release Date:1993-11-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Missing Persons
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Release Date:1990-05-30
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:1
Walter and June
Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".
Release Date:1983-04-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Walter
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".
Release Date:1982-11-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Mary's Wife
A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
Release Date:1980-05-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
"If Only..."
Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.
Release Date:1980-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
All Creatures Great and Small
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot. Ninety episodes were aired over two three-year runs. The first run was based directly on Herriot's books; the second was filmed with original scripts.
Release Date:1978-01-08
Character:Mr. Hopps
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:42
Brief Encounter
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Release Date:1974-11-12
Character:Schoolmaster
Vote Count:10
The Emergency Channel
Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no memory?
Release Date:1973-11-08
Character:Wilf
Rainbow
Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Join George, Bungle, Zippy, and all their friends at the Rainbow House, always an exciting place to be.
Release Date:1972-10-16
Character:Himself
Episode Count:105
Vote Count:20
A Kind of Loving
As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.
Release Date:1962-04-12
Character:Draughtsman (uncredited)
Vote Count:56