John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE was an English television scriptwriter. He was responsible for several British sitcoms, including Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends. His work won him a number of comedy awards, including the BAFTA for best sitcom on three occasions.
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John Richard Thomas Sullivan OBE was an English television scriptwriter. He was responsible for several British sitcoms, including Only Fools and Horses, Citizen Smith and Just Good Friends. His work won him a number of comedy awards, including the BAFTA for best sitcom on three occasions, and he was made an OBE in 2005. Sullivan was from a working-class background, and grew up in Balham, South London. The final episode of Sullivan’s last comedy series aired five days after his death from pneumonia on 22 April 2011. His last work was Rock & Chips, a comedy drama prequel to Only Fool’s and Horses. He left school at Christmas 1961 with no qualifications, but did attend evening classes in German and English, and read Teach Yourself books after leaving school.
His father, John, Sr., was a plumber and his mother, Hilda, occasionally worked as a charwoman. Sullivan worked in a variety of low-paid jobs for 15 years before getting his first break writing sketches for The Two Ronnies, which led to writing the sitcom Citizen Smith. He also wrote the comedy drama serial Over Here and the drama series Micawber for ITV, and co-wrote the comedy Heartburn Hotel. He died of pneumonia in April 2011 at the age of 69. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son. The couple had a son, James, and a daughter-in-law, both of whom are still living in the same London apartment.
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