1918
Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (died 1966)
Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (died 1966)
Giles Cooper, Irish soldier and playwright (died 1966)
Giles Cooper (playwright)
British playwright (1918–1966)
- Born
- 1918
Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.