Both his 1959 novel In the Wake of a Stranger and his 1962 novel about the Cyprus emergency, The High Bright Sun, were made into films, Black writing the screenplays in each case.

[2] After writing a one-act play and submitting it to the Donald Wolfit Theatre Company, he was asked to join them as an actor.

Here he met his wife, the actress Anne Brooke, whom he married just prior to being called up for service in the Second World War.

These stories were The Savages and The War Machines (with Kit Pedler and Pat Dunlop) for William Hartnell's Doctor; and The Macra Terror for Patrick Troughton.

His final credit was for a half-hour supernatural drama called House of Glass, which was made by Television South in 1991.