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Richard Gordon
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Born
Gordon Stanley Ostlere

(1921-09-15)15 September 1921
Died11 August 2017(2017-08-11) (aged 95)
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Ship's surgeon, anaesthetist, and writer
Known forDoctor series of novels

Richard Gordon (born Gordon Stanley Benton, 15 September 1921 – 11 August 2017, also known as Gordon Stanley Ostlere),[1] was an English ship's surgeon and anaesthetist. As Richard Gordon, Ostlere wrote numerous novels, screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history, mostly dealing with the practice of medicine. He was best known for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme beginning with Doctor in the House, and the subsequent film, television, radio and stage adaptations. His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993, and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex.

Gordon was born in Paddington, London.[1] He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and worked as an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (where he had been a medical student) and later as a ship's surgeon and as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He published several technical books under his own name, including Anaesthetics for Medical Students (1949), later published as Ostlere and Bryce-Smith's Anaesthetics for Medical Students in 1989; Anaesthetics and the Patient (1949), and Trichlorethylene Anaesthesia (1953)[1]. He left medical practice in 1952, and took up writing full-time. The early Doctor novels, set in the fictitious St. Swithin's, a teaching hospital in London, were witty and apparently autobiographical; later books included more sexual innuendo and farce. The novels were successful in Britain in Penguin paperback during the 1960s and 1970s. Gordon also contributed articles to Punch magazine, and published books on medicine, gardening, fishing and cricket.

The film adaptation of Doctor in the House (1954) was released two years after the book's publication.[2] He had an uncredited role as an anaesthetist in the film.[3] Doctor at Sea came out the following year, with Brigitte Bardot in the cast.[4] Dirk Bogarde starred as Dr. Simon Sparrow in both.[5] The later spin-off TV series were written by British comedy writers.[6] In 1974, he walked off the set of This is Your Life when Eamonn Andrews appeared with the red book.[citation needed] He later changed his mind and the show was transmitted a week later.[7]

Gordon's wife Mary Ostlere was also a physician, and the couple had four children. He died on 11 August 2017.[8][7]

Partial bibliography[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Lyall, Joanna (2017). "Richard Gordon". BMJ: j3997. doi:10.1136/bmj.j3997. S2CID 220091708.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Doctor in the House (1954)". screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Doctor in the House (1954)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Doctor at Sea (1955)". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017.
  5. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Bogarde, Dirk (1921-1999) Biography". screenonline.org.uk.
  6. ^ Guide, British Comedy. "Doctor in the House - ITV Sitcom". British Comedy Guide.
  7. ^ a b "Doctor in the House author dies aged 95". BBC News. 14 August 2017 – via bbc.com.
  8. ^ Campbell, Lisa (14 August 2017). "Novelist Richard Gordon dies aged 95". The Bookseller. Retrieved 14 August 2017.

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source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Gordon_(English_author)

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