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JwY Management Representing the Late: Brian Degas

Writer and Creator: Colditz BBC TV Series & Board Game

Colditz The Final Salute WW2 Drama New Film to be confirmed

With full permission from his present wife Mrs Dene Degas

31 years happily married together whom I now represent 

    Now its my turn the carry on the Journey forward in the memory of Brian Degas

Colditz Board Game Available from Amazon.co.uk By Osprey Publishing

Brian Degas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Degas

Career

Degas was born to English parents in Argentina. As a youth, he worked as a writer and director in amateur productions. 

Died: 3 April 2020 (aged 84), Broadstairs, Kent, England

At the age of 21, he took a job in the United States at the CBS network as a production trainee in public affairs programming.

He later worked with Charles Collingwood on the documentaries Adventure and Odyssey. In 1957, John Houseman invited Degas

to work on his TV anthology series The Seven Lively Arts for CBS. During this period, Degas also worked with Reginald Rose,

Sidney Lumet and George Roy Hill. At the age of 27, Degas was appointed Executive Producer of Light Entertainment and a

member of the programming board for a new CBS affiliate.

After a meeting with Roger Moore, Degas received the opportunity to write several episodes of the TV series The Saint.

He also wrote episodes of The Baron and Strange Report for ITC Entertainment, Shirley's World for the American

Broadcasting Company, and The Informer and The Mask of Janus for the BBC.

In 1963, Degas started creating and developing his own TV series with BBC Television. He created and wrote three

episodes for the series Vendetta. Degas also authored three paperbacks as spinoffs from the series and commissioned

the series music from composer John Barry.

A fluent Italian speaker, Degas also started collaborating with Dino de Laurentiis on design, script consulting and editing

for the films Barbarella (film), Danger Diabolik, Better a Widow and Summertime Killer. In 1975, after finishing these projects,

Degas served as producer of The Venturers, a drama series for BBC TV concerning the world of high finance.

Colditz

Degas produced the television series Colditz, a BBC TV/MCA Universal co-production in 1972. It was a Second World War drama

series based on the film The Colditz Story and the book The Latter Days by Major Patrick Robert Reid.[1] During its run,

         Colditz was named Best BBC TV Series, Best British TV Series, Best Design, and Best Music. It had a record viewing audience of 18 million in the United Kingdom each week and was screened in 47 countries.

Using the intellectual property of Colditz, Degas pioneered the exploitation of television and film ancillary rights. He conceived,

developed and licensed the following merchandising projects The Spirit of Colditz, a model of the Colditz glider for Airfix

Colditz Breakpoint, a dramatic journey into the sounds of pursuit, capture and escape from Colditz released on an LP by EMI

The Colditz Escape Kit, a DIY model of Colditz Castle and a Action Man model endorsements for a Mars bar promotion

that culminated in the board-game Escape from Colditz Degas conceived and developed Escape from Colditz

jointly with Major P. R. Reid. The game sold over half a million copies, including a Spanish version's 

 Freelance career

Degas returned to the US and to TV programming in New York and Hollywood for a brief period, which included being Head

of Development for Brut Productions and for Danny Thomas Enterprises. With high hopes, he turned to the world of theatre

and co-produced Chapter 17 by Simon Gray, which was a dismal failure at the box office. A close friendship with the legendary

Gloria Swanson led to their collaboration on the writing of her long-awaited biography. Accordingly, in 1979 Degas

set up Gloria's Way Inc and personally closed a publishing contract with Random House. The 520-page volume sold

over 148,000 in hard cover and close to 300,000 in paperback, and was critically acclaimed in all three language editions.

His distinctive marketing plan for the book and his promotional tour with Gloria refined his marketing skills in all

aspects of the media.

Returning to the UK, he joined Polymuse Inc., an international film investment company, as Executive Vice-President

in charge of Creative Affairs and Marketing emphasising that “in an advertising led system in a new billion dollar market

in Europe it was time to develop a competitive strategy and target specific audiences on a cost effective bases – and

that it was a fallacy to think that inexpensive programmes meant inferior TV.”

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​​In 1990, together with Harry Robertson he brought his innovative skills back to the BBC as creator, writer and producer of Specials,

a TV drama series, including three paperback editions published by Fontana, about part-time policemen – ordinary people

whose commitment made them extraordinary. This was followed by Virtual Murder, an off-beat psychological 'whodunit' drama

series about two jet-set investigative psychologists involved in bizarre crimes. The series' guest stars included Richard Todd,

Dora Bryan and Jon Pertwee. Specials: Based on the BBC TV Drama Series: The complete novels in one volume

 Escape from Colditz  By Brian Degas (Author), Pat Reid (Author), Peter Dennis (Illustrator)Details

Specials: Based on the BBC TV Drama Series: The complete novels in one volume

by Brian Degas and Harry Robertson | 5 Oct 2017 5.0 out of 5 stars  paperback

A later project was Confidentially Speaking, created in association with British Telecom, and written as an "eavesdropping

drama" down a crossed telephone line.

Degas later took an extended sabbatical, and travelled the globe with his wife for last 31 years happily

married together Mrs Dene Degas

  He became a committed Sinophile and turned to publishing and ancillary rights sales. 

Now its my turn to carry on the Journey forward in the memory of my Great Friend Brian Degas

Percy Herbert whom I represented

Percy Herbert (actor) Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992)[1] was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the

1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema. Herbert served in the Royal Army

Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was

helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike[2] to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship.[3] His acting

career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company.[4] Beginning in 1954, he went on to make nearly

seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in The Cockleshell Heroes, The Bridge on the River Kwai (for which he also worked as

consultant as well as suggesting the use of the well-known "Colonel Bogey March" which the prisoners whistled in the film), Sea of Sand,

Tunes of Glory, The Guns of Navarone, Guns at Batasi, Tobruk and The Wild Geese. [5] However, he was equally at home in comedies

(Barnacle Bill, Casino Royale, two Carry On films), fantasy (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island), drama (Becket, Bunny Lake is Missing),

and science fiction (Quatermass 2, Night of the Big Heat).[1] He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived American

series Cimarron Strip, during a brief foray to Hollywood. Other television work includes Danger Man (retitled Percy Herbert Herbert in

1967 Born 31 July 1920 London, England Died 6 December 1992 (aged 72) Kent, England Education Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Occupation Actor Years active 1951–1987 Spouse Amy Lindsay (m. 1947) Children 2 Life and career Secret Agent when shown on American TV),

The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green and Worzel Gummidge. [5][6] Herbert was born in east London, and spent his youth learning to become a

boxer at the Repton Boxing club. One of three siblings, he was the middle child. His father left home when he was a young boy and he was brought

t up by his mother Ann Herbert along with his brother Lawrence and his sister Maisie. During World War II he joined the British Army as a

young man and was sent to Singapore via ship to fight in the Pacific. The British ship miscalculated the timing of its entry into harbour,

and sailed into Singapore Harbour in broad daylight. The British were immediately bombed by Japanese aircraft and Herbert jumped ship

and swam to shore with a broken collar bone. He was picked up by British soldiers and taken to the British Military Hospital, Singapore,

where Herbert survived the Alexandra Hospital massacre. He was among 11 soldiers who survived and ultimately were captured and sent

to the notorious Japanese Prison Camp at Changi, where he remained as a POW for the duration of the war. He was assigned to work on

the Burma Railway and was released from Changi at the end of the war, after which he returned to London. One of the first films he was

cast in was Bridge on the River Kwai, which was about British prisoners of the Japanese. David Lean, the producer of the film, paid

Herbert a stipend to be a consultant on the film as he had been a POW there and was also cast in the role of Grogan, one of the first roles

in which he was cast during his long and varied acting career. Herbert died of a heart attack, aged 72, on the 6th of December 1992

in Broadstairs, Kent, which is on the south coast of England. He was survived by his childhood sweetheart and wife Amy and his

two daughters Vanessa and Katrina .[7] I Done a Murder (1951, TV film) - The Rev. Christopher Spoke The Young Lovers (1954)

- Richards (uncredited) Montserrat (1954, TV film) - Morales The Green Carnation (1954) - Casey O'Rourke One Good Turn (1955) -

"Seen Enough" Boxing Spectator (uncredited) The Night My Number Came Up (1955) - R.E.M.E. Sergeant The Prisoner (1955) -

Soldier (uncredited) Confession (1955) - Barman The Gold Express (1955) Timeslip (1955) - Assassin (uncredited) The Cockleshell Heroes

(1955) - Marine Lomas Complete filmography Doctor at Sea (1955) - Helmsman (uncredited) Lost (1956) - Police Constable in Phone Box

(uncredited) Child in the House (1956) - Det. Sgt. Taylor A Hill in Korea (1956) - Pte. Moon Tiger in the Smoke (1956) - Copper Quatermass 2

(1957) - Gorman The Steel Bayonet (1957) - Pte. Clark The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Grogan Night of the Demon (1957) -

Farmer (deleted from US print) Barnacle Bill (1957) - Tommy The Safecracker (1958) - Sergeant Harper No Time to Die (1958) - 1st British

soldier Sea Fury (1958) - Walker Sea of Sand (1958) - 'Blanco' White Idol on Parade (1959) - Sgt. Hebrides The Square Ring (1959) The Hill

(1959, TV film) - Reuben Serious Charge (1959) - Mr. Thompson Deadly Record (1959) - Belcher Yesterday's Enemy (1959) - Wilson The Devil's

Disciple (1959) - Edict Sergeant Don't Panic Chaps! (1959) - Bolter A Touch of Larceny (1960) - (uncredited) The Challenge (1960) -

Shop Steward There Was a Crooked Man (1960) - Prison Warden Tunes of Glory (1960) - RSM Riddick The Guns of Navarone (1961) -

Sgt. Grogan Mysterious Island (1961) - Sergeant Pencroft Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Seaman Matthew Quintal The Captive City (1962)

- Sgt. Maj. Reed Call Me Bwana (1963) - First Henchman The Cracksman (1963) - Nosher Carry On Jack (1963) - Mister Angel, Bo’sun

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) - Dover Castle Jailer Becket (1964) - Baron Guns at Batasi (1964) - Colour Sgt. Ben Parkin

The Counterfeit Constable (1964) - L'agent Baxter Carry On Cleo (1964) - Guard (uncredited) Joey Boy (1965) - Mad George Long Bunny

Lake Is Missing (1965) - Policeman at Station Carry On Cowboy (1965) - Charlie, the Bartender One Million Years B.C. (1966) - Sakana Tobruk

(1967) - Dolan Mister Ten Per Cent (1967) - Inspector Great The Viking Queen (1967) - Catus Casino Royale (1967) - 1st Piper Night of the

Big Heat (1967) - Gerald Foster The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) - Diego One More Time (1970) - Mander Too Late the Hero (1970) -

Sergeant Johnstone The Other Reg Varney (1970, TV film) - Various characters Captain Apache (1971) - Moon Man in the Wilderness

(1971) - Fogarty Doomwatch (1972) - Constable Hartwell Beware My Brethren (1972) - Jim Hudson The Fiend (1972) - Commissionaire

Up the Front (1972) - Cpl. Lovechild Black Snake (1973) - Joker Tierney The Mackintosh Man (1973) - Taafe Craze (1974) -

Detective Constable Russet One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Mr. Gibbons Metamorphosis Alpha (1976, TV film) - Thargon Commander

Hardcore (1977) - Hubert Valentino (1977) - Studio Guard The Wild Geese (1978) - Keith The London Connection (1979) - Ship's Captain

The Sea Wolves (1980) - Dennison Rules of Justice (1981, TV film) - George Lattimore The Love Child (1988) - Maurice 1. "Herbert, Percy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20090505180403/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/i ndividual/24840) . Film & TV Database. BFI. Archived

from the original (http://ftvdb.bfi.org. uk/sift/individual/24840) on 5 May 2009. Retrieved 24 May 2009. 2. "Percy Herbert Biography" (https://archive.today/20121022125256/http://wc03.allmovie.co m/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:249621) . Allmovie (allmovie.com). Archived

from the original (http://wc03.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll) on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2007. 3. "Percy Herbert – RADA" (https://www.rada.ac.uk/profiles/percy-herbert/) . rada.ac.uk. 4. "Percy Herbert | Theatricalia" (https://theatricalia.com/person/2c0/

percy-herbert) . theatricalia.com. 5. "Percy Herbert | Movies and Filmography" (https://www.allmovie.com/artist/percy-herbert-

p 31890/filmography) . AllMovie. 6. "Percy Herbert" (https://web.archive.org/web/20111207214430/http://aveleyman.com/Actor

Credit.aspx?ActorID=7872) . aveleyman.com. Archived from the original (https://www.avele yman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=7872)

on 7 December 2011. 7. "Percy Herbert" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190214174442/https://variety.com/1992/sc ene/people-

news/percy-herbert-101986/) . Variety. 9 December 1992. Archived from the original (https://variety.com/1992/scene/people-news/

percy-herbert-101986/) on 14 February 2019. References Percy Herbert (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0378612/) at IMDb

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