John Howlett

John Howlett (4 April 1940 – 4 March 2019) was an English author and screenwriter who lived in Rye, East Sussex.

He started his writing career by co-writing the screenplay of the 1968 feature film if...., directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Howlett attended Tonbridge School and Jesus College, Oxford where he studied history.

His writing credits cover film and TV and include both writing and adaptation.

• 1999 Doomwatch: Winter Angel (TV movie) (writer)
• 1999 Darkness Falls (writer)
• 1993 Colpo di coda (TV movie) (writer)
• 1992 Touch and Die (TV movie) (writer)
• 1992 Bonne chance Frenchie (TV mini-series) (adaptation)
• 1990 Where Were You That Night? (TV Movie)
• 1989 Crossing the Line (TV Series)
• 1988 Game, Set, and Match (TV series)
• 1985 Murder of a Moderate Man (TV mini-series)
• 1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV series)
• 1968 if.... (from an original story called "Crusaders" & script)

He was also a researcher on the 1975 TV documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager. He is the author of the 1980 biography of Frank Sinatra, together with a biography of James Dean and a number of works of fiction.

His full book credits are:

Fiction

• The Christmas Spy (1975)
• Tango November (1976)
• Maximum Credible Accident (1980)
• Orange (1985)
• Murder of a Moderate Man (1985)
• Cry (1995)
• Love Of An Unknown Soldier (2010)
• A Long Road Home (2012)
• When War Came Again (2012)
• First Snow Of Winter (2012)

Non fiction

• James Dean (1975)
• Frank Sinatra (1979)

Theatre

• Dean - West End musical with Robert Campbell. Subsequently produced in Japan by the Takarazuka Revue
• Lorca - Musical with Theo Jaskolkowski & Robert Campbell

Radio - (BBC Radio 4)

• Soldier, Poor man, Beggarman, Thief
• Next Man Through the Door
• Gone for Soldiers
• Maximum Credible Accident