Biography
Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004) was an English playwright and screenwriter. He began his career writing for Granada Television, contributing 129 episodes of Coronation Street in the 1960s before creating sitcoms such as The Dustbinmen and The Lovers.
Rosenthal wrote numerous single plays for BBC strands including Play for Today. He received BAFTA awards for Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), The Evacuees (1975) and Spend, Spend, Spend (1977). In 1983 he co-wrote the screenplay for the feature film Yentl with Barbra Streisand. He also devised the long-running series London's Burning.
He married actress Maureen Lipman in 1974. Rosenthal was appointed CBE and is noted for drawing on his Manchester Jewish background in much of his work.
