Tony Gray, a former journalist with The Irish Times, has died in Hampshire in England. Born in 1922 at Sandymount, Dublin, he attended St Matthew's, Irishtown, and St Andrew's College before joining The Irish Times as a junior leader-writer in 1940.
He was a brother of the late Ken Gray, a former deputy editor of this newspaper and a member of the Irish Times board from 1978 to 1998.
In 19 years with the paper, he was writer of An Irishman's Diary, arts editor and editor of Times Pictorial. In 1959 he went to London, where he worked as features editor of the Daily Mirror before going to Thames Television in 1963. There he was editor of its late-night news feature programme Dateline London.
In 1965, he went freelance and over the next 30 years he wrote 18 books, including five novels. He also wrote more than 100 film scripts, including those for industrial documentaries, public relations and training films. Among his books was Smylie's People, about the former editor of this newspaper, R.M. Smylie, who gave him his first job in journalism. His last book, A Peculiar Man, about the writer George Moore, was published in 1996.
Mr Gray is survived by his wife Patricia Walters, whom he married in 1946. They had two children, Michael and Victoria, and two grandchildren, Adam and Abigail.
A service will take place at Aldershot crematorium in Hampshire on Friday at 1 p.m.