Dennis Potter
Writing
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 1982 Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Nominated Pennies from Heaven
Edgar Awards 1 won
- 1984 Edgar Awards Won
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Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC TV serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and the television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television.
Born in Gloucestershire and graduating from Oxford University, Potter initially worked in journalism. After standing for parliament as a Labour candidate at the 1964 general election, his health was affected by the onset of psoriatic arthropathy which necessitated Potter changing careers and led to him becoming a television dramatist. His new career began with contributions to the BBC's Wednesday Play anthology series in 1965, and he continued to work in the medium for the rest of his life. He also wrote screenplay adaptations for the Hollywood studios. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1994.
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Filmography
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Writing
58 credits
Play for Today
The Wednesday Play
Screen Two
ITV Playhouse
Thirty-Minute Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Performance
The Singing Detective
Gorky Park
Pennies from Heaven
Karaoke
Tender Is the Night
That Was The Week That Was
The Sextet
Dreamchild
The Singing Detective
Christabel
Cold Lazarus
Wessex Tales
The Company of Five
Lipstick on Your Collar
Pennies from Heaven
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
Blackeyes
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Track 29
Casanova
Traitor
The Bittersweet
Mesmer
Blade on the Feather
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Visitors
Late Call
Joe's Ark
Cream in My Coffee
Where the Buffalo Roam
Shaggy Dog
Secret Friends
Only Make Believe
Brimstone & Treacle
Where Adam Stood
Schmoedipus
Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Double Dare
Angels Are So Few
Rain on the Roof
Son of Man
Blue Remembered Hills
Alice
Midnight Movie
Message for Posterity
Lay Down Your Arms
Brimstone and Treacle
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
A Beast with Two Backs
Moonlight on the Highway
Acting
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Directing
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