Trevor Griffiths, who has died at 88, was a passionate, prolific and political writer whose television dramas dominated the nation’s screens during the 1960s and 70s.
He is perhaps best known for Comedians, Occupations, and Bill Brand, his 1976 11-part Thames TV series about a left-wing Labour MP struggling to cope with life in Westminster. Griffiths was born in Manchester of Irish and Welsh parents and after reading English literature at Manchester University was a teacher for eight years.
However, Griffiths was sufficiently enthused to write Occupations, a stage play about the Fiat factory occupations in pre-war Italy. This brought him to the attention of the critic Kenneth Tynan, artistic director of the National Theatre, who commissioned him to write The Party, a critique of the British revolutionary left which starred Laurence Olivier in his last role at the National as a Glaswegian Trotskyite.
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