Tommy Donbavand
Tommy Donbavand was an English actor and an author of books and comics for children from Liverpool.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.
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.
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.
In March 2016, Donbavand was diagnosed with inoperable, stage four throat cancer. He died from the illness in May 2019.
