Irish screenwriter Frank Deasy has died from cancer of the liver.
Mr Deasy (49) died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary early this morning during an operation. He had been awaiting an organ donation.
He was an Emmy award-winning screenwriter whose television credits included Prime Suspect - The Final Act, Looking After Jo Joand Father And Son.
Mr Deasy was originally from Dublin but moved to Scotland 12 years ago and lived in Glasgow with his wife and three children.
His cinema credits include The Grass Arenaand Captives,and he was working on Gaza, a feature film starring Helen Mirren.
On Monday, Mr Deasy featured on the RTÉ's Livelineprogramme and appealed for people to sign up to organ donation.
Paying tribute, actor Dougray Scott Scott said Mr Deasy was “brave, kind, selfless and passionate to the end”.
He said: “Today a great, great man was taken away from us. Very few times in life is one fortunate and blessed enough to meet a person like Frank Deasy.
“He was quite simply the most extraordinary and brilliant writer I have ever worked with and one of the most extraordinary and beautiful men I was blessed to have met."
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