Known For
Writing
Born
Dec 12, 1929
Died
Dec 24, 1994
Place of Birth
Fulham, London, England
Credits
37 titles
John Osborne
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.
Known For
Filmography
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
Writer
England, My England
Writer
The Entertainer
Writer
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Self
Look Back in Anger
Writer
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Writer
Colonel Redl
Screenplay
A Better Class of Person
Narrator
Hedda Gabler
Adaptation
Very Like a Whale
Writer
Flash Gordon
Arborian Priest
Look Back in Anger
Writer
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
Writer
Tomorrow Never Comes
Lyne
Supernatural
Edward Manners
Almost a Vision
Writer
The Gift of Friendship
Writer
Luther
Writer
Ms or Jill and Jack
Writer
Get Carter
Kinnear
Great Performances
Self
The Hotel in Amsterdam
Writer
First Love
Maidanov
The Right Prospectus
Writer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Writer
Inadmissible Evidence
Writer
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Writer
Luther
Writer
The Parachute
Werner Roger
ITV Playhouse
Writer
BBC Play of the Month
Werner Roger
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Harry Steadman
Tom Jones
Screenplay
A Sunday in September
Self
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Writer
The Entertainer
Screenplay
Look Back in Anger
Theatre Play