162. Jeremy Paul's dramatisation of "The Musgrave Ritual" received the Edgar Allan Poe Award. He is pictured here with Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke & Michael Cox.
BAFTA 4 JB would like to extend its condolences to the family and friends of one of its supporters: writer Jeremy Paul, who passed away last week after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Mr Paul was an award-winning writer who is probably most familiar to us thanks to his work on Granada Television’s “Sherlock Holmes” series.
After being educated at Canterbury and Oxford, Jeremy Paul was given a 3 year contract by ATV (Associated Television). One of his major successes during this time was the acclaimed play “Room for Justice”, which starred Marius Goring and which was directed by Peter Sasdy.
Later on, Jeremy went to to adapt books for television. Some of the first ones included Arnold Bennett’s “Lord Raingo”, for the BBC’s classic serial. It was directed by Peter Hammond and starred Kenneth More.
Television episodes written by Jeremy Paul at this time included “Love Story”, “Redcap‘” (starring John Thaw), “Van der Valk” (with Barry Foster) and “The Rat Catchers”.
Plays written at this time included “Consequences” directed by Alan Gibson.
In the 1970s, Jeremy Paul worked on numerous episodes of the Internationally award-winning series “Upstairs Downstairs”, “The Duchess of Duke Street”, and “Country Matters”.
During the following decade Jeremy worked on three BBC Plays For Today: “A Walk In The Forest”, starring John Alderton and directed by Jack Gold, “The Flipside of Dominick Hide” and “Another Flip for Dominick”, starring Peter Firth and co-written and directed by Alan Gibson. After an adaptation of Warwick Deeping’s “Sorrell and Son” and numerous episodes of the BBC’s Civil War series “By The Sword Divided”, Jeremy Paul went on to adapt two episodes for Marjorie Allingham’s “Campion”, starring Peter Davison, and then into Granada Television’s “Sherlock Holmes” series, starring Jeremy Brett, David Burke and Edward Hardwicke.
It was Jeremy Paul who adapted many of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most well-known Sherlock Holmes stories for the series, which ran from 1984 to 1994. His work on the series includes dramatisation (“The Naval Treaty”,”The Speckled Band”, “The Musgrave Ritual”, “Wisteria Lodge” and “The Problem of Thor Bridge”), and screenplay (“The Master Blackmailer”, “The Last Vampyre”, “The Three Gables” and “The Red Circle”). In the late 1980s, Jeremy Paul also wrote the theatre play “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” especially for Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, and directed by Patrick Garland. The play sold to audiences at Wyndham’s Theatre in London for one year (1988-1989) and also enjoyed an extensive tour of the UK.
In the 1990s, Jeremy Paul’s dramatisation of “The Musgrave Ritual” earned him the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Further work by Jeremy Paul includes episodes for “Lovejoy”, starring Ian McShane, “Hetty Wainthropp Investigates”, starring Patricia Routlegde, and “Midsomer Murders”, starring John Nettles. Also, a thriller entitled “The Watcher” won critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006.
In 2010, a revival of “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” successfully toured the UK. It starred Peter Egan as Sherlock Holmes and Philip Franks as Doctor Watson. Jeremy Paul’s most recent work was a revival of “The Life of Sherlock Holmes”.
Jeremy Paul was laid to rest today near to his family home.
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