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Ray Rigby (b.1916,Rochford,Essex,England – May 19, 1995,Guadalajara, Mexico) was a British screenwriter and novelist.
He is mainly known forThe Hill, a searing account of an abusive military prison, which was directed bySidney Lumet and was greeted with critical acclaim, winning the Best Screenplay award at the1965 Cannes Film Festival,[1] an honour also bestowed by theWriters' Guild of Great Britain the following year, when it also won aBAFTA for Best Screenplay. The film was inspired by Rigby's own experience in a British military prison in World War II when he spent two terms in field punishment detention centres. He co-wrote the filmOperation Crossbow, also released in 1965.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he worked for several of the major Hollywood studios writing for top TV series, includingStarr and Company andThe Avengers.[2]
Rigby published a novel of the story ofThe Hill in 1965.[3]Hill of Sand was written as a follow-up.Jackson's War dealt with similar themes.[4] Other novels includeJackson's Peace andJackson's England.[5]
Author Tony Burton, who knew Rigby, said he was "a born raconteur, with keen street-smarts and a ready wit. Author Alex Gratton was not exaggerating when he described Ray in a memorial piece as a "world class wit and a fabulous story teller".[6][7]
Rigby left Hollywood behind in 1972 and moved to Mexico, settling in Guadalajara, where he married for the fifth and final time, and lived until his death in 1995, at the age of 78.[8][9]
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