Award-winning writer Willis Hall -- formerly of Laverock Hall, at Oldfield -- has died.
Some of his best known work -- for the cinema, TV and theatre -- was done in collaboration with long-time friend Keith Waterhouse.
Their credits included the films Billy Liar, A Kind of Loving and Whistle Down the Wind, and TV series Worzel Gummidge and Budgie. In 1999, the duo received the Yorkshire Arts and Entertainment Personality Award in recognition of their individual and collective achievements.
Mr Hall -- who in the1980s was a board member of Keighley Rugby League Club -- began writing while serving with the army in the Far East.
Back in the UK, he had his first major success when The Long and The Short and The Tall won the Evening Standard Best Play of the Year Award in 1958.
His other solo successes over the years have included the scripting of The Reluctant Dragon, which won a BAFTA Best Animation Film Award in 1988, and adaptations of classic novels, including Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre.
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