Playwrights and their stage works 

Keith (Spencer) Waterhouse

Born Leeds, Yorkshire, 6 February 1929.

Stage Plays

  1. Billy Liar, with Willis Hall, adaptation of the novel by Waterhouse (produced 1960)
  2. Celebration: The Wedding and The Funeral, with Willis Hall (produced 1961)
  3. England, Our England, with Willis Hall, music by Dudley Moore (produced 1962)
  4. Squat Betty, with Willis Hall (produced 1962)
  5. The Sponge Room, with Willis Hall (produced 1962)
  6. All Things Bright and Beautiful, with Willis Hall (produced 1962)
  7. Come Laughing Home, with Willis Hall (as They Called the Bastard Stephen,
    produced 1964; as Come Laughing Home, produced 1965)
  8. Say Who You Are, with Willis Hall (produced 1965) as Help Stamp Out Marriage (produced 1966)
  9. Joey, Joey, with Willis Hall, music by Ron Moody (produced 1966)
  10. Whoops-a-Daisy, with Willis Hall (produced 1968)
  11. Children's Day, with Willis Hall (produced 1969)
  12. Who's Who, with Willis Hall (produced 1971)
  13. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, with Willis Hall, adaptation of a play by Eduardo De Filippo (produced 1973)
  14. The Card, with Willis Hall, music and lyrics by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent, adaptation of the novel by Arnold Bennett (produced 1973)
  15. Filumena, with Willis Hall, adaptation of a play by Eduardo De Filippo (produced 1977)
  16. Worzel Gummidge (for children), with Willis Hall, music by Denis King, adaptation of stories by Barbara Euphan Todd (produced 1980)
  17. Steafel Variations (songs and sketches), with Peter Tinniswood and Dick Vosburgh (produced 1982).
  18. Lost Empires, with Willis Hall, music by Denis King, adaptation of the novel by J.B. Priestley (produced 1985)
  19. Mr. and Mrs. Nobody, adaptation of The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith (produced 1986)
  20. Budgie, with Willis Hall, music by Mort Shuman, lyrics by Don Black (produced 1988)
  21. Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell (produced 1989)
  22. Bookends, adaptation of The Marsh Marlowe Letters by Craig Brown (produced 1990)
  23. Our Song, adaptation of his novel (produced 1992).

Screenplays, with Willis Hall:

  1. Whistle Down the Wind, 1961
  2. The Valiant, 1962
  3. A Kind of Loving, 1963
  4. Billy Liar, 1963
  5. West Eleven, 1963
  6. Man in the Middle, 1963
  7. Pretty Polly (A Matter of Innocence), 1967
  8. Lock Up Your Daughters, 1969.

Radio Plays

Television Plays

  1. The Warmonger, 1970
  2. The Upchat Line series, 1977
  3. The Upchat Connection series, 1978
  4. Charlie Muffin, from novels by Brian Freemantle, 1979
  5. West End Tales series, 1981
  6. The Happy Apple series, from a play by Jack Pulman, 1983
  7. This Office Life, from his own novel, 1984
  8. Charters and Caldicott, 1985
  9. The Great Paper Chase, from the book Slip Up by Anthony Delano, 1988
  10. Andy Capp series, 1988;
  11. Happy Moorings, 1963 with Willis Hall
  12. How Many Angels, 1964
  13. Inside George Webley series, 1968
  14. Queenie's Castle series, 1970
  15. Budgie series, 1971-72
  16. The Upper Crusts series, 1973
  17. Three's Company series, 1973
  18. By Endeavour Alone, 1973
  19. Briefer Encounter, 1977
  20. Public Lives, 1979
  21. Worzel Gummidge series, from stories by Barbara Euphan Todd, 1979.

Novels

Other Publications