Stanley Morgan

Stanley Morgan is a best-selling British author whose 32 books have been enjoyed by countless millions around the world.

An inveterate world-traveller, he left Liverpool in the 1950s to study radio drama in Canada, and then moved to Southern Rhodesia to work on a tobacco farm. Whilst in Africa, he began performing in local theatre productions and eventually returned to London in the 1960s to become an actor and a leading voice-over in TV commercials. He appeared in the first James Bond film, Doctor No amongst many other British films of the era. In-between acting jobs he began to write. and his first novel 'The Sewing Machine Man' was published in 1968.

Featuring his popular 'Russ Tobin' character, he then went on to write 17 more books in the series during the 1970s, selling over ten million copies in the process. As the 1970s progressed, he diversified into writing books about other comedy characters such as Randy Comfort and Albert Shifty, along with a three book series about a glamourous new airline. He later moved to the US and continued to write more serious thrillers, before returning for a final Russ Tobin book in 2005.