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	'''John Law''' (11 November 1929 – 5 January 1970) was a British comedy writer for television, who created the [[Class sketch]] for ''[[The Frost Report]]''.<ref name = TVH>{{cite web \|url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/shows_fi_to_fu.htm#frost_report \|title=The Frost Report – A Television Heaven Review \|publisher=www.televisionheaven.co.uk \|accessdate=2014-05-18 }}</ref>		'''John Law''' (11 November 1929 – 5 January 1970) was a British comedy writer for television, who created the [[Class sketch]] for ''[[The Frost Report]]''.<ref name = TVH>{{cite web \|url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/shows_fi_to_fu.htm#frost_report \|title=The Frost Report – A Television Heaven Review \|publisher=www.televisionheaven.co.uk \|accessdate=2014-05-18 }}</ref>

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{{About||the socialist journalist and writer|Margaret Harkness|other people|John Law (disambiguation){{!}}John Law}}
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'''John Law''' (11 November 1929 – 5 January 1970) was a British comedy writer for television, who created the [[Class sketch]] for ''[[The Frost Report]]''.<ref name = TVH>{{cite web |url=http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/shows_fi_to_fu.htm#frost_report |title=The Frost Report – A Television Heaven Review |publisher=www.televisionheaven.co.uk |accessdate=2014-05-18 }}</ref>

==Life==
Law was born 11 November 1929, in [[Paisley, Renfrewshire]], [[Scotland]]. He married Beryl Kaye (1919–2010) a dancer and choreographer,<ref name=Kaye>{{cite web |url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/people/obituaries/2011/01/beryl-kaye/|title=Obituaries: Beryl Kaye |work=The Stage |date=20 January 2011 |accessdate=2014-11-14}}</ref> and died 5 January 1970, aged 40.

==Work==
He wrote for many TV comedy series, including ''[[It's a Square World]]'' and ''[[The Frost Report]]'', working with [[Michael Bentine]] and [[Marty Feldman]]. He also worked on the screenplay for the [[James Bond]] spoof film ''[[Casino Royale (1967 film)|Casino Royale]]'', having been recruited for this project by [[Peter Sellers]].<ref name=Strangelove>{{Cite book |first=Ed |last=Sikov |author-link=Ed Sikov |date=2003-11-01 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZGZAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT307 |title=Mr Strangelove: a Biography of Peter Sellers |publisher=[[Hachette Books]] |isbn=9781401398941 |access-date=2019-12-31 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1929 births]]
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[[Category:Writers from Paisley, Renfrewshire]]
[[Category:Scottish comedy writers]]
[[Category:Scottish television writers]]
[[Category:20th-century screenwriters]]