David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.

[6] He continued his education at London's Slade School of Fine Art,[5][6] and supported himself there by playing rugby league for Leeds RLFC as a halfback for the "A" team, with occasional appearances in the first.

[1] He wrote the screenplay for This Sporting Life (1963), directed by Lindsay Anderson, adapted from his first novel of the same name, originally published in 1960,[7] which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award.

[1] Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

[10] Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren.