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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.
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Filmography
all 70
Movies 70
Writer 55
Screenplay 1
Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble (2025)
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare (2024)
The Island Between Tides (2024)
Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)
Come Away (2020)
Darling, Darling, Wendy (2019)
Peter Pan: The Quest for the Never Book (2018)
National Theatre Live: Peter Pan (2017)
Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016)
Peter & Wendy (2015)
Pan (2015)
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)
Peter Pan Live! (2014)
Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (2014)
Secret of the Wings (2012)
Pixie Hollow Games (2011)
Tinker Bell (2008)
Peter Pan (2003)
Return to Never Land (2002)
Peter Pan (2000)
Hook (1991)
Peter Pan (1988)
Peter Pan (1987)
Mary Rose (1987)
Dear Brutus (1981)
Peter Pan (1976)
The Little Minister (1975)
The Admirable Crichton (1968)
Eine halbe Stunde (1968)
Unser Herr Diener (1967)
Johannisnacht (1966)
Peter Pan (1962)
Mary Rose (1961)
Froher Herbst des Lebens (1961)
Peter Pan (1960)
The Admirable Crichton (1957)
Peter Pan (1956)
Peter Pan (1955)
Forever Female (1953)
Peter Pan (1953)
Darling, How Could You! (1951)
Quality Street (1937)
As You Like It (1936)
The Little Minister (1934)
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
We're Not Dressing (1934)
Charlemagne (1933)
The doctor's secret (1930)
The Doctor's Secret (1930)
The doctor's secret (1930)
The Doctor's Secret (1930)
Tajemnica lekarza (1930)
Seven Days Leave (1930)
The Doctor's Secret (1929)
Quality Street (1927)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
Peter Pan (1924)
The Little Minister (1922)
The Little Minister (1921)
What Every Woman Knows (1921)
Sentimental Tommy (1921)
The Twelve Pound Look (1920)
Male and Female (1919)
Masks and Faces (1917)
The Real Thing at Last (1916)
Rosy Rapture (1915)
The Little Minister (1915)
The Little Minister (1913)
Tink
Peter Pan Goes to Hell
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GenderMale
Birthday1860-05-09
Deathday1937-06-19 (77 years old)
Birth NameJames Matthew Barrie
Birth PlaceKirriemuir, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsSir James Barrie, James Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, James M. Barrie
AwardsOrder of Merit
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