Paul Erickson
Born: 22nd November 1920
Died: 27th October 1991 (aged 70 years)
Episodes Broadcast: 1966
Paul Erickson was born in Cardiff, Wales but grew up in San Diego,
California. He returned to the UK as a young adult. With the outbreak of
World War Two, Erickson served in the Royal Air Force and then began
working as an actor in movies like 1943's Old Mother Riley
Overseas. In the late Forties, he began to move into television,
where he appeared in programmes such as BBC Sunday-Night
Theatre. Following a period managing a dance company, Erickson
shifted his attention to writing, first for the theatre and then the
cinema. During the Fifties, his movies included 3 Steps To
Gallows, for which he also made one of his last credited on-screen
appearances.
Over the ensuing decade, Erickson's career increasingly began to focus
on television, including episodes of The New Adventures Of Martin
Kane, The Saint and Out Of The Unknown. Erickson's
only Doctor Who serial, The
Ark, was broadcast in 1966; it was co-credited to Lesley Scott,
to whom he was married at the time, although it appears that Scott
herself did not work on the scripts. Erickson's career continued into
the Seventies, when he wrote for shows like Paul Temple,
Freewheelers and Rogue's Rock. In 1986, Erickson novelised
The Ark for Target Books. He died
following a stroke on October 27th, 1991.
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