Ted Whitehead

{{short description|English playwright and television writer}}

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{{Infobox person

|name = Ted Whitehead

|birth_date = {{birth date|1933|04|03|df=y}}

|birth_place = Liverpool, England

|death_date = {{death date and age|2023|01|13|1933|04|03|df=y}}

|occupation = Playwright, television writer

}}

Ted Whitehead (3 April 1933 – 13 January 2023),{{Cite web|url=https://www.bafta.org/heritage/in-memory-of/ted-whitehead|title=Ted Whitehead|work=British Academy Television Awards|access-date=May 11, 2024}} also known as E. A. Whitehead,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eNAUAQAAIAAJ|title=British and Irish Dramatists Since World War II.: Fourth series · Volume 4|page=299|date=2005|publisher=Thomson Gale|isbn=978-0-7876-8128-9 |via=Google Books}} was an English playwright and television writer. He wrote for television programs including The Free Frenchman, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Cracker, First Born and The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jan/22/ted-whitehead-obituary|title=Ted Whitehead obituary|work=The Guardian|date=22 January 2023|access-date=11 May 2024}}

In 1972, Whitehead wrote the play Alpha Beta,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nhljyhl1YhgC|title=The Writers Directory: Volume 11|page=1321|author=Saint Martins Press Inc, Miranda H. Ferrara, George W. Schmidt|date=1994|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-317-0 |via=Google Books}} starring Albert Finney and Rachel Roberts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/21/archives/london-the-triumph-of-alpha-beta.html|title=Arts Abroad|first=Bernard|last=Weinraub|work=The New York Times|date=21 February 1972|access-date=11 May 2024}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RKF9EAAAQBAJ|title=Elizabeth Taylor's Kiss and Other Brushes with Hollywood|page=63|first=David|last=Wood|date=28 July 2022|publisher=Troubador Publishing|isbn=9781915352934|via=Google Books}}

Whitehead died on 13 January 2023, at the age of 89.