About Philip L Moore

Hello and welcome to my site. A Happy 2012 to you all.

Welcome to the site of Philip L Moore author and script writer.

Of course Philip L Moore is just a persona that Philip Deighton Maw uses for his writing career.

In 2011 Philip started to convert all his written books to script format. This meant stepping back on writing any more books, and having three manuscripts still sat on his PC waiting to be published, this was not a decision taken lightly.

Philip explains his love of movies and the need to write one:

“I have always been a day dreamer, thinking of things that seem well out of reach. But life has taught me if you have a dream fight for it as anything is possible! It wasn’t until the 80’s that I really started to think about it again and started writing in secret.

I found myself running my own business in the 80’s and it was this business that started to introduce me to the world of entertainment. I first met Arthur White (Elder brother of Only Fools and Horses star David Jason.) Who at that time lived in Worthing in West Sussex. I then met the late Richard Todd and I must say both men I found to be real gentlemen. Richard was fascinating to talk to and being into aviation we had a nice long chat one day about the Dam Busters Movie which he played the lead role of Guy Gibson.

I was itching inside to write something but didn’t have the confidence needed to try, then one day I got a phone call from Warner Brothers. They were making a film called (The Power Of One) at Christ’s hospital near Horsham in West Sussex. Now don’t go getting too excited I had a cleaning business, I still hadn’t plucked up the courage to write. My cleaning business had a very good reputation and it seemed I could fit in around the schedule they were asking for which was 18:00 to 22:00 every evening for two weeks! For the first time I got close to filming, it was my first time “On Location!” I loved it, talking to the actors and producers, watching the filming it just blew my mind. I fell in love that day when I met (Very briefly) Fay Masterson who played Maria, god she was stunning and elegant.

Things soon started to progress and I soon found myself working for some of the members of Pink Floyd (Dave Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason) which in turn led to meeting many other people. In 1996 I found myself down at Le Mans working the EMI Racing hospitality suite and cooking dinner for the Pink Floyd guys and sat chatting to Nick Mason. Then you would never guess who drops in for lunch, but only Rowan Atkinson! I tell you I had to pinch myself in order to make sure I was awake!

At this time I was also doing air shows all over the UK with Brendan Walsh’s Red Star’s the first Yak formation flying display. This again was linked to Dave Gilmour through (Intrepid Aviation) a business Gilmour had set up to make his collection of classic aircraft pay for them self. Brendan organised the first ever Shoreham air show in Sussex. Once again I found myself mixing with famous people and this time being Garry Newman who back in those days was flying his Harvard which was in the livery of a Mitsubishi Zero (White with red circles).

Life was exciting, and as one thing leads to another I started to do some work for Mike Woodley who ran a business called Aces High TV and film studios. It was at this time I met Richard O’Brien  famed for (Rocky Horror Show.) He was doing the Crystal Maze which at that time was in a hanger at North Weald close to where I now live at Harlow. Richard would sit outside with cast and crew strumming on his guitar during the breaks.

I then went on to do work for The Old Flying Machine Company, operated by the late Ray and Mark Hanna. This entailed me cleaning aircraft for several films and photo shoots. There was a lot going on in aviation back then, the Memphis Belle remake, Piece Of Cake, Goodnight Mr Tom, TV adverts, it was crazy but fun times.

But the day came when I realised I really wanted to write, so I took the drastic set to give up work and live off my savings whilst I built up a new career. The last Job I ever did was the so called haunted 747 at Dunsfold. This was being used for the filming of the James Bond film Casino Royale and once again I found myself on location watching all the filming and stunts being done. But this was a double whammy as it is also the same place where Top Gear is filmed, so we were also watching Clarkson and his crew testing cars out around the track.

If you watch some of the old clips of Top Gear from the 2006 period you will see me and my bright yellow trucks in the back ground working on the 747! And yes folks this is the time we spent the night in the haunted plane, which funnily enough came out in the SUN!!

It was 2006 I started working on my first book, to which many more soon followed.

Hopefully, I will soon have a script sold and I can start to enjoy this new career which  has just about bankrupted me !

I was also very lucky in 2011 to have made contact with Marsha Posner Williams the producer of Soap and The Golden Girls in the USA. She is a very, very experience producer, so I was bowled over when she offered to edit and help me with my first film script. To be Skyping with talent like hers and have her go through my work line by line, page by page was amazing. So in my first year of being a script writer I have received a huge step up the ladder.

I am currently working on two comedy scripts, one as a long running series.   I am so looking forward to what 2012 will bring, I have a real buzz for writing  and I am hoping the new material you will all love. I must say I am in fits writing it. If the script writing career fails then I will have lots of notes for some new books, so its all good stuff!"

Thanks for all your support 

Philip L Moore

The history stuff! 

Philip L Moore was born in 1961, the youngest son of four children, to Stanley Maw and Mavis Deighton. Philip was only 7 years old when his mother died at Littlehampton West Sussex, so Philip grew up close to his next sister, Sharon, coping with whatever life threw at them. Philip’s father was a chain-smoking alcoholic, unable to hold down any job and often in and out of prison. As a result Philip ended up changing schools about 25 times resulting in a poor education. Philip clearly remembers two sides of one certain road, Ford airfield one side, Ford prison the other, both of which Philip visited reguarly as a child.

Often in and out of trouble as a teenager, Philip learnt how to survive as he was growing up. He finally left school in 1977 (finishing at Bampton Secondary School in Devon) with very few qualifications. His reading and writing skills suffered greatly as a result of his speckled education, however despite this, it never hampered his outlook on life, he remained and remains very positive, always believing his glass is half full.

At the age of 18, Philip decided to change the spelling of his surname from MAW to MOORE, which he has kept ever since. He soon headed back towards the West Sussex area, settling once again in Littlehampton. This was a new beginning for him.

After taking a few jobs in agriculture, milking cows and farming the land, he knew he could do better and was looking for a more demanding role. In the meantime, he met up with Lynette Marshall at the age of 22, started to settle down. They had two sons, Lee and Karn.

He started off running a mobile car cleaning business in Littlehampton called Mobile Car Wash Company, and it was not long after this that Philip went on to set up one of the UK’s leading aircraft cleaning companies, AirDefence Aviation, gaining a huge amount of material for his first book.

Philip likes to write about the places he knows and loves, Taunton/Wellington in Somerset are often mentioned as are Shaftesbury in Dorset, and Littlehampton in West Sussex. Being in aviation for many years means Places like Dunkeswell, Shoreham, Goodwood, Northweald, Compton Abbas, and Hestridge often creep into his story lines.

Throughout his life Philip was always writing, making notes and writing poetry and small stories with his wicked humour. As time went on, and with the help of technology in the form of “spell check” on his computer, he was able to start writing more seriously. Writing then became his favourite hobby, and it was only towards the end of 2005 when Philip met Michele Simmonds-and daughter Kerri Compton, that she encouraged him to approach a publishing group to get his first book published!

 Currently Phil's books available are "Utterly Ridiculous", Therapy, Eternal Wish, KEZ, and Amelia's Daughter.

All books will be available for sale direct from the author at

www.myspace.com/philiplmoore