Tommy Donbavand

Tommy Donbavand (28 November 1967 – 14 May 2019) was an English actor and an author of books and comics for children from Liverpool.[1]

Background

Tommy Donbavand had a varied career which has seen him working as a clown, a holiday camp entertainer and a performer in Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story in London's West End. He has also run acting and writing classes, written, produced and directed a number of theatre productions, and written a series of non-fiction books in his Quick Fixes for Bored Kids series.[2]

In 2006, Donbavand began writing as B. Strange for the Too Ghoul For School book series, published by Egmont. This led to his own series - Scream Street - being picked up by Walker Books. The first in this series of thirteen novels - Scream Street: Fang of the Vampire - was published in October 2008. In 2015, the Scream Street television series, based on his books started on CBBC.

In April 2013, his Doctor Who novel Shroud of Sorrow featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald was published by BBC Books.[3]

Donbavand wrote for The Beano comic, initially starting with strips for Calamity James, Gnasher and Gnipper and The Bash Street Kids. Six months later, he was made the main writer for The Bash Street Kids.[4]

In March 2016, Donbavand was diagnosed with inoperable, stage four throat cancer.[5] He died from the illness in May 2019.[6]

gollark: > or read the CMOS memory using inb/outbIsn't that the memory storing the BIOS and its data? Why is that random?
gollark: Clearly, things weren't random enough when you tried.
gollark: I ran it through valgrind, but that just complains about the standard library doing evil things in some other bits of the code, and seems to suggest mine is fine.
gollark: On the plus side, this is several hundred times faster.
gollark: My Nim code is binding to a C library, and I can't help but fear that it (my binding code, that is, the C library is fuzzed and whatever) is leaking memory horribly or invoking undefined behavior or something.

References
  1. "Tommy Donbavand". WorldCat.org. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  2. Dondavand, Tommy. "Who Do I Think I Am?". Author's official website. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  3. "Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow", Penguin Books, retrieved 15 May 2019
  4. "No Laughing Matter? Comic Writer Tommy Donbavand vs Cancer", downthetubes.net, 4 May 2016, retrieved 15 May 2019
  5. Gladwell, Hattie (1 December 2018). "Sepsis survivors open up about what it's like to nearly die". Metro.
  6. Hutchison, Barry (14 May 2019). "Important message. Please read". Tommy v Cancer.
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