34 stage plays and a number of feature films. In the 1970s he turned to novels, including a spy story, The Left-Handed Sleeper, and a wartime thriller The Lions of Judah. Honours and awards Announced on 23 December 1963 he was awarded a life peerage, which was created on 21 January 1964 with the title Baron Willis, of Chislehurst in the County of Kent, on a Labour Party nomination. Willis was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1959 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews in the club at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, in London's Shepherd's Bush. Personal life He married the actress Audrey Hale in 1944 and they had a son and a daughter. He died of a heart attack at his home in Chislehurst, Kent in December 1992 aged 78, and was buried at Tottenham Cemetery. Credits Selected plays Buster (1943) Doctor in the House (1957, from the novel by Richard Gordon) Hot Summer Night (1958) The Scent of Fear (1959) Woman in a Dressing Gown (1964) Films Holiday Camp (1947) Good-Time Girl (1948) A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) The Huggetts Abroad (1949) The Blue Lamp (original treatment, 1950) The Undefeated (1951, documentary about disabled war veterans) A Story of Achievement (1951, documentary about the development of margarine) The Wallet (US Blueprint for Danger, 1952) Top of the Form (1953) Trouble in Store (1953) The Large Rope (US: The Long Rope, 1953) Burnt Evidence (1954) Up to His Neck (1954) One Good Turn (1955) It's Great to Be Young (1956) Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) The Young and the Guilty (1958) No Trees in the Street (1959) Flame in the Streets (1961) The Horsemasters (1961) Bitter Harvest (1963)Our Miss Fred (1972) Selected TVThe Pattern of Marriage (1953)Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976)Hot Summer Night (Armchair Theatre) (1959)Tell It to the Marines (1959–1960)Taxi! (1963–1964) The Sullavan Brothers (1964–1965)Sergeant Cork (1963–1969)Mrs Thursday (1966–1967)The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–1974) Novels Whatever Happened to Tom Mix? (1970) Death May Surprise Us (1974) Westminster One (1975) The Churchill Commando (1977) The Left-Handed Sleeper (1977) The Naked Sun (1980) The Buckingham Palace Connection (1980) The Lions of Judah (1981) The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (1982) Spring at the Winged Horse (1985) Problem for Mother Christmas (1986) The Green Leaves of Summer (1989) The Bells of Autumn (1991) Plume of Feathers (1993) References External links Bibliography 1914