Biography
William Humble was a British television writer and dramatist. Born on 22 December 1948 in Carshalton, Surrey, he began his career as a script editor at the BBC in the early 1970s before turning freelance.
He wrote episodes for series including Agatha Christie's Poirot (dramatised by the 1992 episode Death in the Clouds), Maigret and Emmerdale Farm, and provided adaptations for All Creatures Great and Small (1980) and P. D. James's The Black Tower (1985). His original plays and adaptations often drew on real-life stories, among them On Giant's Shoulders (1979), Rules of Justice (1981) and Royal Celebration (1993).
Humble received BAFTA nominations for his work. He died on 15 October 2024.
