Biography
An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal.
He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.
Filmography
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Movies 12
Writer 11
self 1
Self - Speaking in 1977
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (2019)
Movie
Writer
Born Kicking (1992)
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Writer
Threads (1984)
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6
Writer
Speech Day (1973)
Movie
Writer
Kes (1970)
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6
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1939-06-30
Deathday2016-03-13 (76 years old)
Birth PlaceBarnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsMelvin Barry Hines
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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