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name: "Vincent Tilsley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vincent-tilsley"
fi1m_id: "vincent-tilsley"
imdb_id: "nm0863481"
tmdb_id: 1220980
wikidata_id: "Q136459832"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 June 1932"
died: "29 September 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T09:25:22.181537+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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# Vincent Tilsley

## Identity

Vincent Tilsley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vincent-tilsley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vincent-tilsley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0863481
- **TMDB ID:** 1220980
- **Wikidata ID:** Q136459832
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136459832, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863481/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220980

Writer. Born 3 June 1932 in Stockport. Died 29 September 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 June 1932, Stockport
- **Died:** 29 September 2013
- **Active:** 1962–1967
- **Frequently works with:** [Gerald Kelsey](https://film.one/person/gerald-kelsey.md), [Roger Parkes](https://film.one/person/roger-parkes.md), James Cellan Jones
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136459832, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0863481/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220980

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Prisoner*](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md) (84)

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## Biography

Vincent Tilsley was a British television writer, script editor and producer. He wrote more than one hundred scripts over twenty years, including episodes of *The Prisoner* (1967), *Z Cars*, *Doctor Finlay's Casebook* and *The Forsyte Saga*. He co-created the series *The Guardians* (1971) with Rex Firkin and wrote the television film *The Death of Adolf Hitler* (1973).

Tilsley served as a story editor for the BBC, notably on the Sunday Play series, and received Writers Guild of Great Britain team awards for his work on *Doctor Finlay's Casebook* and *The Forsyte Saga*. He was later awarded the Guild's Presidents Award for outstanding services to the organisation and the craft of writing. He also wrote the book *Holy Night*.

He was born in Stockport and died on 29 September 2013.

*Sources: imdb.com, collectiveinkbooks.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Prisoner* (1967), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *The Death of Adolf Hitler* (1973), Writer
- *Suspicion* (1971), series, Writer
- *The Guardians* (1971), series, Writer, Creator
- *Sweeney Todd* (1970), Adaptation
- *Manhunt* (1970), series, Writer
- *The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder* (1969), series, Writer
- *ITV Saturday Night Theatre* (1969), series, Writer
- *The Prisoner* (1967), series, Writer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)
- *The Forsyte Saga* (1967), series, Writer
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1966), series, Writer
- *Mystery and Imagination* (1966), series, Writer
- *David Copperfield* (1966), series, Writer
- *Dr. Finlay's Casebook* (1962), series, Writer
- *Z-Cars* (1962), series, Writer
- *Emma* (1960), series, Adaptation
- *David Copperfield* (1956), series, Writer

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