death_date birth_place |imagesize nationality notableworks birth_date article_title name occupation
20 february 2001 wath-upon-dearne , south yorkshire , england 150px english '' ` the navigators '' ' -lrb- 2001 -rrb- 8 january 1956 rob dawber
 '' ` robert `` rob '' dawber '' ' screenwriter
rob dawber

robert `` rob '' dawber -lrb- 8 january 1956 -- 20 february 2001 -rrb- was a british railwayman turned writer whose script for the film `` the navigators '' was commissioned by director ken loach and shot in sheffield , where dawber lived .
he was a long-standing member of the trotskyist group the alliance for workers ' liberty .
