---
name: "Jack Rosenthal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-rosenthal"
fi1m_id: "jack-rosenthal"
imdb_id: "nm0742768"
tmdb_id: 64626
wikidata_id: "Q1677193"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "8 September 1931"
died: "29 May 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:30:54.457321+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jack Rosenthal

## Identity

Jack Rosenthal

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-rosenthal
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-rosenthal
- **IMDb ID:** nm0742768
- **TMDB ID:** 64626
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1677193
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Rosenthal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1677193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742768/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64626

Writer. Born 8 September 1931 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK. Died 29 May 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 8 September 1931, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, UK
- **Died:** 29 May 2004
- **Active:** 1970–1983
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Rosenthal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1677193, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0742768/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64626

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Yentl*](https://film.one/film/yentl.md) (65)

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## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, screenonline.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Yentl* (1983), Fi1m 65, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/yentl.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ready When You Are, Mr McGill* (2004), Writer
- *Lucky Jim* (2003), Writer
- *Chicken Run* (2000), Thanks — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run.md)
- *Captain Jack* (1999), Writer
- *Cold Enough for Snow* (1997), Screenplay
- *Eskimo Day* (1996), Writer
- *Wide-Eyed and Legless* (1993), Writer
- *Bye Bye Baby* (1992), Writer
- *About Face* (1989), series, Writer
- *Screen One* (1989), series, Writer
- *And a Nightingale Sang* (1989), Writer
- *Day To Remember* (1986), Writer
- *London's Burning* (1986), series, Creator
- *London's Burning: The Movie* (1986), Writer
- *The Fools on the Hill* (1986), Writer
- *Mrs Capper's Birthday* (1985), Writer
- *The Chain* (1984), Writer
- *Arthur's Hallowed Ground* (1984), Script Editor
- *Yentl* (1983), Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/yentl.md)
- *Those Glory Glory Days* (1983), Script Editor
- *Secrets* (1983), Script Editor
- *Forever Young* (1983), Script Editor
- *Experience Preferred... But Not Essential* (1982), Story
- *P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang* (1982), Writer
- *The Lucky Star* (1982), Screenplay
- *Continental Divide* (1981), Associate Producer
- *The Knowledge* (1979), Writer
- *Spend Spend Spend* (1977), Writer
- *Spaghetti Two-Step* (1977), Writer
- *The Velvet Glove* (1977), series, Writer
- *Hindle Wakes* (1976), Writer
- *Laurence Olivier Presents* (1976), series, Writer
- *Bar Mitzvah Boy* (1976), Writer
- *The Duchess of Duke Street* (1976), series, Writer
- *Well Thank You, Thursday* (1976), Writer
- *The Five Pound Orange* (1976), Writer
- *Red Letter Day* (1976), series, Writer
- *Ready When You Are, Mr McGill* (1976), Writer
- *Sadie, It's Cold Outside* (1975), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Evacuees* (1975), Writer
- *Nightingale's Boys* (1975), series, Writer
- *Village Hall* (1974), series, Writer
- *Seven Faces of Woman* (1974), series, Writer
- *Hot Fat* (1974), Writer
- *The Lovers!* (1973), Writer
- *Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.* (1972), Writer
- *The Lovers* (1970), series, Creator
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Writer
- *The Dustbinmen* (1969), series, Writer
- *ITV Saturday Night Theatre* (1969), series, Writer
- *Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar* (1968), Writer
- *There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah* (1968), Writer
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Writer
- *Compensation Alice* (1967), Writer
- *The Night Before The Morning After* (1966), Writer
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, Writer
- *Friday Night* (1963), series, Writer
- *Comedy Playhouse* (1961), series, Writer
- *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, Writer

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