John Antrobus, who has died aged 92, was just 21 when in 1955 he joined the writers’ cooperative Associated London Scripts. Based in an office above a greengrocer’s shop in Shepherd’s Bush, it housed a cradle of talent shaking up postwar television and radio comedy.
Newly out of army officer training at Sandhurst, with a father who was a regimental sergeant-major and arriving wearing a herringbone suit, he found himself among a new generation sticking two fingers up at the establishment. He began by working with Johnny Speight, who went on to create the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, and said that within months he had become more like his fellow writers.
