Known For
Writing
Born
Oct 21, 1936
Died
Aug 06, 2008
Place of Birth
Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
Credits
27 titles
Simon Gray
Biography
British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. "It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you." His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays. Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigour, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.
Known For
Filmography
Trust
Jimmy
Two Nights
Cinematography
Femme Fatale
Writer
Unnatural Pursuits
Writer
Common Pursuit
Writer
Running Late
Writer
They Never Slept
Writer
Screen One
Writer
A Month in the Country
Screenplay
Quartermaine's Terms
Writer
After Pilkington
Writer
Screen Two
Writer
The Rear Column
Writer
Two Sundays
Writer
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Writer
Butley
Writer
The Man in the Sidecar
Writer
Play for Today
Writer
W. Somerset Maugham
Writer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Writer
The Jazz Age
Writer
Spoiled
Writer
Sleeping Dog
Writer
ITV Playhouse
Writer
Death of a Teddy Bear
Writer
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
The Wednesday Play
Writer