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Kevin Laffan
Kevin Barry Laffan (24 May 1922, Reading, Berkshire – 11 March 2003, London) was an English playwright, screenwriter, author, actor and stage director. Laffan is best known for creating the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale Farm'', now titled ''Emmerdale''.
Raised in a family of fourteen children, Laffan's Catholic upbringing formed the inspiration for many of his plays. Laffan's theatrical career began with a position as a call boy at the Theatre Royal in Bilston, and would eventually lead to him founding a repertory company in Reading. In later life, Laffan also branched out into fiction, publishing his début novel, ''Virgins are in Short Supply'', in 2001.
==Early life and theatre career==
Laffan was the third of fourteen children of a disabled Irish photographer. The family moved to Walsall while he was a child. When he was twelve, they were sent to the workhouse and he claimed to have escaped by jumping off the lorry as it drove through the gates. An elderly actress allowed him to sleep in her kitchen and advised him, "If you want to be serious, make them laugh".〔("Kevin Laffan" ), Obituaries, ''The Daily Telegraph'', 26 March 2003.〕〔Dennis Barker, ("Kevin Laffan: The creator of Emmerdale Farm, he disliked its descent into 'sex and sensationalism'" ), Obituaries, ''The Guardian'', 20 March 2003.〕 At 14 he became a call boy at the Theatre Royal in Bilston, and rose to be a stage manager, an actor and a director. In his teens, he also supplemented his acting income by working on a farm for six months, which gave him insight into farming as a way of life when he came to write ''Emmerdale Farm''.〔Anthony Hayward, ("Obituary: Kevin Laffan Creator of the long-running ITV soap opera 'Emmerdale Farm'" ), Obituaries, ''The Independent'' ((at Highbeam ))〕〔("TV soap writer dies in London" ), ''Birmingham Evening Mail'', 18 March 2003 (at Highbeam)〕 In the early 1950s he started his own repertory company at the Everyman Theatre in Reading; he was its artistic director until 1958.〔〔(The Kevin Laffan Archive ), Archives Hub, retrieved 11 May 2012.〕
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