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David Cook (21 September 1940 – 16 September 2015) was a British author, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for the screen adaptation of his 1978 novel ''Walter'', and was the first presenter of the UK TV programme ''Rainbow''. He was born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, from 1959 to 1961. His first role was in the 1962 film adaptation of ''A Kind of Loving''. Thereafter, he worked on both stage and television. He began to write novels and also for television in the early 1970s. He presented the first and second series of ''Rainbow'', with the first episode airing in October 1972. He left the show to concentrate on his writing before the third series in 1973, and was replaced as presenter by Geoffrey Hayes.〔http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?page_id=6823〕 Cook went on to write ''Walter'', a novel about a young man with learning disabilities. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1978, and was later made into a film of the same name, starring Ian McKellen and directed by Stephen Frears.〔http://www.mckellen.com/video/walter/notes.htm〕 It was broadcast on Channel Four's opening night. Cook's follow up novel, ''Winter Doves'', was also filmed with McKellen, and a 2009 radio play, ''Walter Now'', saw Walter become a pensioner. It also focused on reproductive rights for people with learning disabilities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC Radio 4 Extra - David Cook - Walter Now )〕 Cook continued to act, and provided several of the screenplays for the BBC-TV series ''Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'', a series based on his 1986 novel ''Missing Persons''. He died on 16 September 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Cook, broadcaster and author - obituary )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Cook (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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