Jonathan Miller
Search results
Rupert Thomas. Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. Over his entertainment career he has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George (1994).
Mar 26, 2024 · Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934, Leeds, Yorkshire, England) British playwright who was best known for The Madness of George III (1991) and The History Boys (2004). His work fearlessly scrutinized the British class system, propriety, and England’s north-south cultural divide with results that were simultaneously chilling and hilarious.
Dec 21, 2022 · Wed 21 Dec 2022 08.30 EST. Last modified on Thu 5 Jan 2023 01.38 EST. Alan Bennett’s 2022 diary, published in the London Review of Books, records the 88-year-old playwright contemplating old...
Alan Bennett. Writer: The Lady in the Van. Alan Bennett is an award-winning dramatist and screenwriter who is best known as a member of Beyond the Fringe (1964) (a satirical review that was a hit on both the London stage and on Broadway and featured fellow members Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore) and for his plays The Madness of ...
Oct 31, 2015 · Alan Bennett: ‘I didn’t see the point of coming out'. Charlotte Higgins. Socialist, royalist, show-off, shy ... in life and in his fiction, Alan Bennett is a bundle of contradictions. He...
May 2, 2020 · Comedy, tragedy, elegy: why Alan Bennett’s home truths are perfect for our times | Drama | The Guardian. The BBC is recasting Alan Bennett’s TV drama series Talking Heads with actors...
Alan Bennett was born in 1934 in Leeds. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford, then after a period of National Service, became a lecturer for a short time at Oxford University. He co-wrote and starred in Beyond the Fringe (1963), a satirical review, along with Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1960.
