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Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006 [1]) was a Manx [2] [3] screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
Nigel Kneale was born on 18 April 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Entertainer (1960), Look Back in Anger (1959) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He was married to Judith Kerr. He died on 29 October 2006 in London, England, UK.
Mar 4, 1996 · Toby Hadoke considers the legacy of Quatermass writer Nigel Kneale, whose trademark fusion of science fiction and folk horror famously transfixed the nation at the dawn of TV drama and continues to influence it to this day.
With the centenary of his birth, screenwriter Nigel Kneale is being celebrated for his varied work – including his landmark 1950s dramas about an alien-infested UK, writes Adam Scovell.
May 5, 2020 · The Year of the Sex Olympics, written by Nigel Kneale, is out now on BFI DVD. Writing extensively for both film and TV, Nigel Kneale is one of the most important and radical British screenwriters of the last century. His work has haunted several generations of British viewers.
Jun 26, 2017 · Neil Snowdon, editor of We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale, interviewed Joe Dante about the great British screenwriter best known for the ground-breaking Quatermass serials and films (1953-1979) and The Stone Tape (1972).
Nigel Kneale was one of Britain’s most significant screenwriters of the twentieth century. Credited by Mark Gatiss as “the inventor of modern television”, Kneale’s works included the Quatermass serials, The Year of the Olympics, The Stone Tape, Beasts and essential television adaptations of The Woman in Black and Nineteen Eighty-Four.