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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
all 37
Movies 35
Writer 27
self 4
TV Shows 2
Director 1
The Wedding of the Century (2021)
Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer (2016)
The Hotel In Amsterdam (2004)
England, My England (1995)
The Entertainer (1993)
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties (1993)
The South Bank Show: Noël Coward (1992)
Look Back in Anger (1989)
Colonel Redl (1985)
A Better Class of Person (1985)
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)
Hedda Gabler (1981)
Very Like a Whale (1981)
Flash Gordon (1980)
Look Back in Anger (1980)
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy (1979)
Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976)
The Entertainer (1976)
Almost a Vision (1976)
The Gift of Friendship (1974)
Luther (1974)
Ms or Jill and Jack (1974)
Get Carter (1971)
Great Performances (1971)
The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
First Love (1970)
The Right Prospectus (1970)
Inadmissible Evidence (1968)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Luther (1968)
The Parachute (1968)
Tom Jones (1963)
A Sunday in September (1961)
A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960)
The Entertainer (1960)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1929-12-12
Deathday1994-12-24 (65 years old)
Birth NameJohn James Osborne
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
LifestyleVegetarianism
ReligionAnglicanism
RelationshipsMary Ure (1957-01-01 - 1963-01-01), Jill Bennett (1968-01-01 - 1978-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsPEN/Ackerley Prize, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
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