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British screenwriter, author and actor

Date of Birth: 24 May 1922
Age at the time of death: 80 years old
Date death 11 March 2003
In the rating: #28 Screenwriter

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1. Early life and theatre career

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Kevin Barry Laffan was a British playwright, screenwriter, author, actor and stage director. Laffan is best known for creating the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Farm, now titled Emmerdale.

Raised in a family of fourteen children, Laffan's Catholic upbringing formed the inspiration for many of his plays. Laffan's theatrical career began with a position as a call boy at the Theatre Royal in Bilston, and would eventually lead to him founding a repertory company in Reading. In later life, Laffan also branched out into fiction, publishing his début novel, Virgins are in Short Supply, in 2001.

Early life and theatre career

Laffan was the third of fourteen children of a disabled Irish photographer. The family moved to Walsall while he was a child. When he was twelve, they were sent to the workhouse and he claimed to have escaped by jumping off the lorry as it drove through the gates. An elderly actress allowed him to sleep in her kitchen and advised him, "If you want to be serious, make them laugh". At 14 he became a call boy at the Theatre Royal in Bilston, and rose to be a stage manager, an actor and a director. In his teens, he also supplemented his acting income by working on a farm for six months, which gave him insight into farming as a way of life when he came to write Emmerdale Farm. In the early 1950s he started his own repertory company at the Everyman Theatre in Reading; he was its artistic director until 1958.

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Date of Birth 24 May 1922

Age at the time of death 80 years old

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Libra	92%
Cancer	88%
Aquarius	88%
Sagittarius	88%
Gemini	84%
Aries	80%
Virgo	68%
Taurus	68%
Scorpio	68%
Capricorn	68%
Pisces	64%

Chinese horoscope Dog Dog - loyal and intelligent People born in the years of the Dog are usually quite restless, always on the lookout, never resting. They are courageous against injustice. They are loyal and devoted, honest and just, noble and generous. True, Dogs are…

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Snake	92%
Rabbit	92%
Goat	88%
Monkey	84%
Horse	84%
Dog	84%
Tiger	80%
Dragon	80%
Pig	72%
Rooster	68%
Bull	68%

Slavic horoscope Elk Born under the Elk sign of the Slavic horoscope, people often combine mythic memory with practical steadiness — reading cycles early and standing firm for those they call their own.

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Fox	96%
Horse	92%
Finist	92%
Aurochs	92%
Elk	88%
Virgin	84%
Lynx	84%
Bear	84%
Eagle	80%
Stork	80%
Pike	76%
Boar	76%
Wolf	76%
Raven	76%
Serpent	64%
Swan	60%

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Horus	96%
Anubis	88%
Bastet	84%
Isis	84%
Geb	80%
Sekhmet	76%
Thoth	76%
Osiris	76%
Mut	64%
Nile	64%
Amun-Ra	56%

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Vine	84%
Hazel	84%
Alder	84%
Rowan	84%
Holly	80%
Ivy	76%
Ash	76%
Birch	76%
Elder	60%
Reed	56%

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Mesha	92%
Vrishabha	88%
Tula	84%
Kanya	84%
Simha	80%
Karka	76%
Kumbha	64%
Makara	60%
Dhanu	56%
Vrishchika	56%
Meena	44%

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Purslane	96%
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Magnolia	92%
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Camellia	84%
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Rose	84%
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Foxglove	84%
Mimosa	84%
Mistletoe	84%
Gentian	84%
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Aster	80%
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Lilac	76%
Carnation	76%
Delphinium	76%
Lily	76%
Belladonna	76%
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Cancer — 2nd decan	96%
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Taurus — 3rd decan	92%
Taurus — 1st decan	92%
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Libra — 3rd decan	84%
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Libra — 1st decan	76%
Virgo — 3rd decan	76%
Leo — 2nd decan	76%
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Aries — 1st decan	76%
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Aquarius — 2nd decan	64%
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Pisces — 2nd decan	60%
Capricorn — 3rd decan	60%
Sagittarius — 1st decan	60%
Pisces — 1st decan	56%
Aquarius — 3rd decan	56%
Capricorn — 2nd decan	56%
Capricorn — 1st decan	56%

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