query: occupation richard gordon 
supports: Historiography is the study of the methodology of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Scholars discuss historiography by topic  such as the "Historiography of the United Kingdom", the "Historiography of Canada", "Historiography of the British Empire", the "historiography of early Islam", the "historiography of China"  and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties  such as to their nation state  is a debated question. Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere ( born Gordon Stanley Ostlere on 15 September 1921 ) , an English surgeon and anaesthetist . As Richard Gordon , Ostlere has written numerous novels , screenplays for film and television and accounts of popular history , mostly dealing with the practice of medicine . He is best known for a long series of comic novels on a medical theme beginning with Doctor in the House , and the subsequent film , television , radio and stage adaptations . His The Alarming History of Medicine was published in 1993 , and he followed this with The Alarming History of Sex . Gordon worked as an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew 's Hospital ( where he was a medical student ) and later as a ship 's surgeon and as assistant editor of the British Medical Journal . He has published several technical books under his own name including Anaesthetics for Medical Students ( 1949 ) , later published as Ostlere and Bryce - Smith 's Anaesthetics for Medical Students in 1989 ; Anaesthetics and the Patient ( 1949 ) , and Trichlorethylene Anaesthesia ( 1953 ) . In 1952 , he left medical practice and took up writing full time . The early Doctor novels , set in the fictitious St. Swithin 's , a teaching hospital in London , were witty and apparently autobiographical ; later books included more sexual innuendo and farce . The novels were very successful in Britain in Penguin paperback during the 1960s and 1970s . Richard Gordon also contributed articles to Punch magazine and has published books on medicine , gardening , fishing and cricket . The film adaptation of Doctor in the House ( 1954 ) was released two years after the book 's publication . He has an uncredited role as an anaesthetist in the film . Doctor at Sea came out the following year , with Brigitte Bardot in the cast . Dirk Bogarde starred as Dr. Simon Sparrow in both . The later spin - off TV series were written by well - known British comedy writers . In 1974 he walked off the set of This is Your Life when Eamonn Andrews appeared with the red book . He later changed his mind and the show was transmitted a week later . His wife Mary Ostlere is also a physician , and they have four children . He lives in London . He is the grandfather of the famous Hilda Han . Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school. Betty Evelyn Box, OBE (25 September 1915  15 January 1999) was a prolific British film producer. Usually credited as Betty E. Box, she is considered one of the best of her generation, with a flair for making genuinely popular British films. Ralph Philip Thomas MC (10 August 1915  17 March 2001) was an English film director, born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He is perhaps best known for directing the "Doctor" series of films. Nicholas Phipps (23 June 1913  11 April 1980) was a British actor and screenwriter who appeared in more than thirty films during a career that lasted between 1938 and 1970. He was born in London in 1913. He appeared mainly in British comedy films, often specialising in playing military figures. He was also an occasional screenwriter, sometimes working on the script for films in which he acted. He retired from acting in 1970. Popular history is a broad and somewhat ill-defined genre of historiography that takes a popular approach, aims at a wide readership, and usually emphasizes narrative, personality and vivid detail over scholarly analysis. The term is used in contradistinction to professional academic or scholarly history writing which is usually more specialized and technical and, thus, less accessible to the general reader.
candidates: academic acting actor director doctor film producer islam mc military reader screenwriter
answer: screenwriter