John Osborne
Writing
Born 1929-12-12
Died 1994-12-24
Fulham, London, England
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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.
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Filmography
Writing
25 credits
BBC Play of the Month
ITV Playhouse
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Colonel Redl
Tom Jones
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer
England, My England
The Entertainer
The Entertainer
Very Like a Whale
Ms or Jill and Jack
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
The Hotel in Amsterdam
A Better Class of Person
Inadmissible Evidence
The Right Prospectus
Look Back in Anger
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Luther
Almost a Vision
A Subject of Scandal and Concern
Look Back in Anger
The Gift of Friendship
Luther
Acting
16 credits
Great Performances
BBC Play of the Month
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Flash Gordon
Supernatural
Get Carter
First Love
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Look Back in Anger
Hedda Gabler
The Entertainer
The Entertainer
Tomorrow Never Comes
A Better Class of Person
The Parachute
A Sunday in September
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