Biography
Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass. Kneale wrote original scripts and successfully adapted works by writers such as George Orwell, John Osborne, H. G. Wells and Susan Hill. Kneale was most active in television, joining BBC Television in 1951; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. He wrote well-received television dramas such as The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968), The Stone Tape (1972) and Beasts (1976) in addition to the Quatermass serials. He has been described as "one of the most influential writers of the 20th century", and as "having invented popular TV".
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Filmography
all 52
Writer 41
Movies 39
TV Shows 13
Screenplay 7
self 3
Cartier and Kneale in Conversation (2005)
Sharpe (1993)
The Woman in Black (1989)
Gentry (1987)
Kinvig (1981)
Quatermass (1979)
Beasts: Baby (1976)
Beasts (1976)
Murrain (1975)
Bedtime Stories (1974)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
The Witches (1966)
The Road (1964)
The Crunch (1964)
The Road (1963)
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
The Entertainer (1960)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Quatermass 2 (1957)
Quatermass II (1955)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1922-04-18
Deathday2006-10-29 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceBarrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom
SpouseJudith Kerr
ChildrenTacy Kneale, Matthew Kneale
SiblingsBryan Kneale
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known AsThomas Nigel Kneale
AwardsSomerset Maugham Award
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