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Date of Birth
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09-August-1918
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Place of Birth
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Dublin
(Republic of Ireland, Ireland)
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Nationality
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England, Republic of Ireland
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Profession
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Writer, Screenwriter, Actor, Playwright
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Giles Stannus Cooper OBE was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.
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