Wolf Mankowitz dies aged 73

Author, playwright and scriptwriter Wolf Mankowitz, died at his home in Durrus, Bantry, Co Cork on Wednesday. He was 73. Son of a Russian Jewish market stallholder, Mankowitz's drew on Yiddish folklore and his childhood in the Petticoat Lane area of London's East End in his work, which included A Kid For Two Farthings, which was made into a film in 1955 starring Diana Dors, and the Cliff Richard film Expresso Bongo.