| birth_place = [[Sleaford]], [[Lincolnshire]], England }}<!--|access-date=4 July 2012--></ref> which he adapted from the original French ''[[Le Manège enchanté]]''.

| birth_place = [[w:Lincoln, England|Lincoln]], [[w:Lincolnshire|Lincolnshire]], England ...ngland|Lincoln]], [[w:Lincolnshire|Lincolnshire]], the son of [[w:Sleaford|Sleaford]] dentist Eugene Charles McCarthy (1899–1954) and Beatrice Annie (''née'