Born in
Stepney, London, Hudis began his writing career on a local newspaper, the
Hampstead & Highgate Express. When World War II broke out, Hudis joined the
RAF and served in the Middle East writing for
Air Force News. Like many other post-war writers his first foray into entertainment was writing for camp concerts. After the war, Hudis failed to get another job at a newspaper and joined
The Rank Organisation in their Pictorial Publicity department, where he learned about filmmaking. In his spare time, he decided to become a playwright, but only his first play
Here Is The News met with critical success. This was enough to get him noticed by
Earl St John at Rank's
Pinewood Studios, who offered him a job as trainee screenwriter. During the two years he was tutored by
Julian Wintle but failed to get any of his screenplays into production. which has played around the world since 2003, and he also wrote the one-man play ''
Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diaries by FF 8282'', the authorised adaptation of
Jeffrey Archer's diaries which were written during his incarceration, both of which are produced by
Marc Sinden Productions. He also wrote the semi-autobiographical play
Dinner with Ribbentrop about his time working with the notoriously
anti-Semitic actor
Eric Portman. He died at the age of 93 on 8 February 2016. His son,
Stephen R. Hudis is an actor and
stunt coordinator. His sister Sylvia Holness [Hudis] lives in England. In 2008 Norman Hudis wrote his autobiography
No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On, published by Apex Publishing Ltd. ==Selected filmography==