About

Hugh John Whitemore was an English playwright and screenwriter. His major stage plays included Breaking the Code (1986), about the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, Pack of Lies (1983), based on a Cold War espionage case, and Stevie (1977), a portrait of the poet Stevie Smith, and The Best of Friends (1987), about the friendship Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, shared with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell.