Lewis Gilbert film versions of Willy Russell's plays "Educating Rita" (1983) and "Shirley Valentine" (1989). Gilbert also directed the film "Stepping Out" (1991). Gilbert was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to the film industry. In 2001, Gilbert was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute, the highest accolade in the British film industry. In June 2010 he appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs". In it he said that his 1970 film "The Adventurers" was a disaster, and that he should never have made it. On
Willy Linthout with Luc Cromheecke the series "Roboboy". In 2007, after the suicide of his son, he wrote and drew the graphic novel "Jaren van de Olifant" ("Years of the Elephant"), which was nominated for a number of international awards and won the Bronzen Adhemar, the most important Flemish comics award. Willy Linthout Willy Linthout (born 1 May 1953) is a Belgian comics author, best known for the "Urbanus" comics and his graphic novel "Years of the Elephant". Willy Linthout is born in Eksaarde near Lokeren, Belgium in 1953. He was a comics collector when he met Flemish comedian Urbanus. They decided