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Name: Ted Willis  
   
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Date of Birth: 13th January 1918
   
Place of Birth: Tottenham, Middlesex, England, UK
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (January 13, 1918 - December 22, 1992), commonly known as Ted Willis, was a British television dramatist who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party.

Willis was elected Chairman of the Labour League of Youth as the candidate of the left in 1937. He served in the Royal Fusiliers in World War II. He was best known for writing the television series Dixon of Dock Green which ran for more than twenty years, and he also wrote nine films. He was Chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain from 1958 to 1964, and on December 23, 1963 it was announced that he had been awarded a Life Peerage on a Labour Party nomination.

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