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Willis was elected Chairman of the Labour League of Youth as the candidate of the left in 1937 . He served in the Royal Fusiliers in World War II .In 1941 he became Secretary General of the Young Communist League. He was a charismatic personality and an excellent public speaker. He often spoke at meetings in favour of opening a second front in order to help the Red Army which was bearing the brunt of the Nazi onslaught. His passion for writing was first manifested in the plays he wrote during the war for the Unity Theatre in Islington. He was best known for writing the television series '' Dixon Of Dock Green '' which ran for more than twenty years, and he also wrote nine films. He was Chairman of the Writers' Guild Of Great Britain from 1958 to 1964 , and on December 23 , 1963 it was announced that he had been awarded a Life Peerage on a Labour Party nomination. |
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