---
name: "John Maynard"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-maynard-1806802"
fi1m_id: "john-maynard-1806802"
imdb_id: "nm1147515"
tmdb_id: 1806802
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 November 1936"
died: "2 February 2008"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:30:04.117410+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."
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# John Maynard

## Identity

John Maynard

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-maynard-1806802
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-maynard-1806802
- **IMDb ID:** nm1147515
- **TMDB ID:** 1806802
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1147515/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1806802

Writer. Born 29 November 1936 in Colchester, Essex, England, UK. Died 2 February 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 November 1936, Colchester, Essex, England, UK
- **Died:** 2 February 2008
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1147515/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1806802

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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## Biography

John Maynard was an English television writer and script editor. He was born on 29 November 1936 in Colchester, Essex, and died on 2 February 2008 in London.

He began working in television script departments in the 1960s after submitting a play to the BBC. His credits as a writer include episodes of *The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling* (1964), *R3* (1965), *Z Cars* (1972–1973) and *EastEnders* (1987–1990). As a script editor he worked on *Dr. Finlay's Casebook*, *Brett*, *Quiller* and *The Sullivans*.

Maynard served as script editor on 163 episodes of *EastEnders* from 1987 to 1989, including a period as series script editor, and later held the same role on the soap *Eldorado* (1992).

*Sources: imdb.com, eastenders.fandom.com, ee-walford.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)
- *A Passage to India* (1965), Writer
- *BBC Play of the Month* (1965), series, Adaptation

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