John Osborne
Born: 1929-12-12 in Fulham, London, England
Died: 1994-12-24
Known For: Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre. In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against his own family, including his wives and children. Osborne was one of the first writers to address Britain's purpose in the post-imperial age. He was the first to question the point of the monarchy on a prominent public stage. During his peak (1956–1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Osborne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- The Wedding of the Century ... (Director)
2016
- Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer ... (Writer)
1995
- England, My England ... (Writer)
1993
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
- The Entertainer ... (Writer)
1991
- Performance ... (Writer)
1989
- Look Back in Anger ... (Writer)
1985
- Colonel Redl ... (Screenplay)
- God Rot Tunbridge Wells! ... (Writer)
- A Better Class of Person as Narrator
1981
- Hedda Gabler ... (Adaptation)
- Very Like a Whale ... (Writer)
1980
- Flash Gordon as Arborian Priest
- Look Back in Anger ... (Writer)
1979
- You're Not Watching Me, Mummy ... (Writer)
1978
- Tomorrow Never Comes as Lyne
1976
- Almost a Vision ... (Writer)
1974
- Luther ... (Writer)
- The Gift of Friendship ... (Writer)
- Ms or Jill and Jack ... (Writer)
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Get Carter as Kinnear
- The Hotel in Amsterdam ... (Writer)
1970
- First Love as Maidanov
- The Right Prospectus ... (Writer)
1968
- The Parachute as Werner Roger
- Inadmissible Evidence ... (Writer)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Writer)
- Luther ... (Writer)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Werner Roger
1963
- Tom Jones ... (Screenplay)
1961
- A Sunday in September as Self
1960
- The Entertainer ... (Screenplay)
- A Subject of Scandal and Concern ... (Writer)
1959
- Look Back in Anger ... (Theatre Play)