Biography
Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 1932 – 22 November 2004) was a British screenwriter and journalist. He began his career as a sports journalist, writing for local papers, the Daily Mirror, The Guardian and The Observer, and published the book The Football Man: People and Passions in Soccer in 1968.
From the early 1970s he turned to television writing. His credits include plays for Play for Today and the series The Nearly Man, as well as screen adaptations such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Hard Times (1977), Bleak House (1985), A Perfect Spy (1987), A Tale of Two Cities (1989) and Rebecca (1997). He also wrote the screenplay for the film Agatha (1979) and the feature Hostage (1992). Hopcraft received the BAFTA Writers Award in 1986.
