...les Langley Hackney''' (10 September 1924, [[Manchester]] – 15 May 2009, [[Hertfordshire]]) was an English novelist and screenwriter.<ref>[https://archive.today/201 ...herwood Forest]]'' enabled him to buy an Edwardian house in [[Bovingdon]], Hertfordshire where he spent the rest of his life, first with his wife, Peggy until she d

| awards = [[w:Military Cross|Military Cross]] ...dshire and Hertfordshire Regiment]] and was awarded the [[w:Military Cross|Military Cross]] for his actions during [[w:Operation Market Garden|Operation Market

| birth_place = [[w:Watford|Watford]], [[w:Hertfordshire|Hertfordshire]], England Bentine was born in [[w:Watford|Watford]], Hertfordshire, to a Peruvian father, Adam Bentin, and a British mother, Florence Dawkins,

| birth_place = [[Little Berkhamsted]], [[Hertfordshire]], England ...most prominently associated with the [[BBC]] during a career which lasted from 1946 until his death in January 1994.