death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date spouse yearsactive article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
26 february 2012 hertfordshire , england , uk king 's lynn , norfolk , england , uk richard carpenter 14 august 1929 annabelle -lrb- 2 children -rrb- lee -lrb- 1954-2012 -rrb- -lrb- his death -rrb- 1957-2001 richard carpenter -lrb- screenwriter -rrb-
 richard michael carpenter screenwriter author actor pulmonary embolism
richard carpenter -lrb- screenwriter -rrb-

richard michael `` kip '' carpenter -lrb- 14 august 1929 -- 26 february 2012 -rrb- was an english television screenwriter , author and actor who created a number of british television series , including `` robin of sherwood '' and `` catweazle '' .
born in king 's lynn , norfolk , carpenter attended the old vic theatre school before starting an acting career by working in rep. he appeared in occasional films , but was mostly active on british tv in the 60s as a character player , on one occasion opposite tony hancock in one of his last shows for the bbc , commonly known as `` the bowmans '' .
other tv shows in which he appeared in the 1960s included `` z-cars '' , `` dixon of dock green '' and `` gideon 's way '' .
in 1969 , carpenter created `` catweazle '' , the children 's series about an unfortunate wizard from the 11th century who is accidentally transported to the present-day .
this changed the course of his career substantially .
carpenter earned international recognition and a writers guild award for creating the cult children 's tv series .
during the 1970s , he wrote the series `` the ghosts of motley hall '' -lrb- 1976 -- 78 -rrb- , `` dick turpin '' -lrb- 1979 -- 82 -rrb- , parts of the series `` the famous five '' and `` doctor snuggles '' and seventeen episodes of `` the adventures of black beauty '' for itv companies ; and `` cloud burst '' , `` the boy from space '' and `` the king 's dragon '' as part of bbc 's `` look and read '' -lrb- 1967 -- 2004 -rrb- programme for schools , some episodes of which he also presented .
in the eighties came the historical adventures `` smuggler '' and its later antipodean-based follow-up `` adventurer '' and between them , the lavish htv production `` robin of sherwood '' , which ran for three series .
carpenter then worked on a number of series for children and families in the nineties -lrb- `` the winjin ' pom '' , `` stanley 's dragon '' and `` out of sight '' -rrb- , some of which -lrb- `` the borrowers '' , `` the return of the borrowers '' , and `` the scarlet pimpernel '' -rrb- were based on classic novels .
carpenter wrote novelisations of many of the early series he created : `` catweazle '' , `` cloud burst '' , `` the ghosts of motley hall '' , `` smuggler '' , `` robin of sherwood '' -lrb- two books -rrb- , and two books of `` dick turpin '' .
carpenter died from a pulmonary embolism on 26 february 2012 at the age of 82 .
