The unit was the subject of a recent TV movie about the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan and will feature in another film, about the rescue of a ship's captain kidnapped by Somali pirates.
Rosenthal, who died in 2004, won three Bafta TV Awards in the 1970s, penned 129 classic episodes of Coronation Street and co-wrote the featurefilm Yentl with Barbra Streisand.