Giles Cooper (playwright)

Giles Cooper OBE
Born	Giles Stannus Cooper (1918-08-09)9 August 1918 Carrickmines
Died	2 December 1966(1966-12-02) (aged 48) Surbiton, Surrey
Occupation	Playwright, radio dramatist
Notable works	Unman, Wittering and Zigo

Giles Stannus Cooper, OBE (9 August 1918 – 2 December 1966) was an Anglo-Irish playwright and prolific radio dramatist, writing over sixty scripts for BBC Radio and television. He was awarded the OBE in 1960 for "Services to Broadcasting". A dozen years after his death at only 48 the Giles Cooper Awards for Radio Drama were instituted in his honour, jointly by the BBC and the publishers Eyre Methuen.