Martin Charlton Woodhouse was a British author and scriptwriter.
12 Facts About Martin Woodhouse
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Martin Woodhouse is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he authored or co-authored eleven novels.
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Martin Woodhouse was a former medical doctor, pilot, engineer and computer designer.
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Martin Woodhouse read Natural Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge from 1951, and Medicine at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, completing his postgraduate research at the Medical Research Council's applied psychology unit in Cambridge.
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In 1959, Martin Woodhouse was called up for National Service and worked with the Royal Air Force at the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, and then at the Farnborough Radar Research Establishment - RRE.
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Martin Woodhouse wrote in the techno-thriller style before the category had been well defined as a subgenre.
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Martin Woodhouse wrote a series of techno-thriller novels about Giles Yeoman, an aeronautical engineer who is a reluctant participant in a variety of cloak-and-dagger exploits conducted by the British intelligence community.
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Martin Woodhouse's descriptions show the sort of attention to technical detail that would be expected from his work as an engineer for the RAF.
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Martin Woodhouse wrote the screenplays of seven episodes of the TV series The Avengers.
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Martin Woodhouse wrote for several British TV series such as The Protectors, Emerald Soup, The Hidden Truth, and The Man in Room 17.
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Martin Woodhouse wrote most of the screenplays for the 1961 season of the marionette TV show Supercar in partnership with his younger brother Hugh, and in 1960 two episodes of a similar show for children Four Feather Falls.
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Martin Woodhouse is believed to have written in excess of seventy screenplays.