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Harry Alan Towers (19 October 1920, Wandsworth – 31 July 2009) was a British radio and independent film producer and screenwriter. He wrote many screenplays for his films, usually under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. He produced over a hundred feature films and continued to write and produce well into his eighties. Towers was married to the actress Maria Rohm who appeared in many of his movies and survives him. ==Biography== The son of a theatrical agent he became a child actor, then became a prolific radio writer while serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II becoming head of the RAF radio unit on the British Forces Broadcasting Service.〔(The Independent )〕 In 1946 he and his mother Margaret Miller Towers started a company called Towers of London that sold various syndicated radio shows around the world,〔Pat Saperstein ("B-movie guru Towers dies at 88", ) ''Variety'', 2 August 2009〕 including ''The Lives of Harry Lime'' and ''The Black Museum'' with Orson Welles, ''Secrets of Scotland Yard'' with Clive Brook, ''Horatio Hornblower'' in which Michael Hordern played the famous character created by C.S. Forester, and a series based on the Sherlock Holmes stories, featuring John Gielgud as Holmes, Ralph Richardson as Watson, and Orson Welles as Professor Moriarty. Based on his radio success, in the mid-1950s he produced television shows for ITV〔(Teletronic.co.uk )〕 such as ''Armchair Theatre'', ''The Golden Fleece'', ''The Boy About the Place'', ''Teddy Gang'', ''The Lady Asks for Help'', ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'', ''The Suicide Club'', ''The Little Black Book'', ''The New Adventures of Martin Kane'', ''A Christmas Carol'', ''24 Hours a Day'', ''Down to the Sea'', ''Gun Rule'', and many others.
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