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13 october 1997 honiton , devon , england london , england 21 march 1915 ian stuart black.jpg ian stuart black
 ian stuart black writer
ian stuart black

ian stuart black -lrb- 21 march 1915 , london -- 13 october 1997 -rrb- was a novelist , playwright and screenwriter .
both his 1959 novel `` in the wake of a stranger '' and his 1962 novel about the cyprus emergency `` the high bright sun '' were made into films , black writing the screenplays in each case .
black attended daniel stewart 's college in edinburgh and manchester university where he studied philosophy .
after writing a one-act play and submitting it to the donald wolfit theatre company he was asked to join them as an actor .
here he met his wife , the actress anne brooke who he married just prior to being called up for service in world war ii .
following service with raf intelligence in the middle east he was demobilised in 1946 .
he later wrote scripts for several british television programmes from the 1950s to the 1970s , including '' the invisible man '' and `` sir francis drake '' -lrb- for which he was also story editor -rrb- , as well as `` danger man '' -lrb- on which he served as associate producer -rrb- and `` star maidens '' .
in addition , he wrote three stories for `` doctor who '' in 1966 and 1967 .
these stories were `` the savages '' and `` the war machines '' -lrb- with kit pedler and pat dunlop -rrb- for william hartnell 's doctor ; and `` the macra terror '' for patrick troughton .
he novelised all three stories for target books .
his final credit was for a half-hour supernatural drama called `` house of glass '' , which was made by television south in 1991 .
he was the father of actress isobel black .
