Terence Rattigan was a friend of Spike Milligan's junior officer, Lieutenant Tony Goldsmith, who was killed in the Battle of Longstop Hill, whilst on observation post duty. Rattigan wrote an obituary of his friend and sent it to "The Times". A copy of it is in ""Rommel?" "Gunner Who?"", one of Milligan's war memoirs. After the war, Rattigan alternated between comedies and dramas, establishing himself as a major playwright: the most famous of which were "The Winslow Boy" (1946), "The Browning Version" (1948), "The Deep Blue Sea" (1952), and "Separate Tables" (1954). He believed in understated emotions and craftsmanship, which was deemed
Terence Rattigan "The Deep Blue Sea", directed by Terence Davies, was released in 2011, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. Many of Rattigan's stage plays have been produced for radio by the BBC. The first play he wrote directly for radio was "Cause Célèbre", broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 27 October 1975, based on the 1935 murder of Francis Rattenbury. A number of Rattigan's plays have been filmed (he was the screenwriter or co-writer for all those made in his lifetime): Terence Rattigan also wrote or co-wrote the following original screenplays: Rattigan wrote or co-wrote the following screenplays from existing material