Ronald Gow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetRonald Gow
British writer
Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1897
Place of Birth: Heaton Moor, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 27-Apr-1993
Profession: writer
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Ronald Gow
- Ronald Gow (1 November 1897 – 27 April 1993) was an English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole (1934). Born in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire, the son of a bank manager, Gow attended Altrincham County High School.
- After training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher.
- In the late 1920s he made several educational silent films with his pupils: The People of the Axe (1926) and The People of the Lake (1928) recreated life in ancient Britain, the latter produced 'with the approval of' Sir William Boyd Dawkins; The Man Who Changed His Mind (1928) was a Boy Scout adventure with a cameo from Robert Baden-Powell; The Glittering Sword (1929) was a medieval parable about disarmament. Writing occupied his spare time during his years as a schoolmaster, and he wrote several plays for the BBC.
- At the age of 35 he had his first professional production, in London and New York, with Gallow's Glorious (1933), a play about the American slavery abolitionist John Brown. In 1934 he wrote Love on the Dole, based on Walter Greenwood's novel about unemployment in Salford during the Great Depression.
- The play was a huge success.
- Wendy Hiller played the lead, and also made her first film appearance in the Gow-scripted Lancashire Luck. In 1937 Hiller and Gow married.
- They later moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they raised two children, Ann (1939–2006) and Anthony (b.
- 1942).
- He lived with Hiller at their home, "Spindles", until his death in 1993.
- He continued writing plays into his eighties, providing material for his wife in adaptations of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1946), which was a great success while Ann Veronica (1949), adapted from the H.
- G.
- Wells novel, quickly proved a commercial failure.
- Gow was co-credited for the book used in the musical version of Ann Veronica which premiered in 1969.
- His other adaptations include Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians and A Boston Story (1966), based on Henry James' Watch and Ward.
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