Alan Frederick Plater CBE (15 April 1935 – 25 June 2010) was a British novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
Works by Alan Plater with their own pages on this wiki include:
- Juggernaut (film, 1974) (uncredited rewrite)
- The Beiderbecke Affair (TV, 1985) (and sequels in 1987 and 1988)
- Oliver's Travels (TV, 1995) (adapted from his own novel)
- Scripts to the Lewis episodes "Old School Ties", "When the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea", "The Quality of Mercy", and "Your Sudden Death Question"