John Osborne
Known For
Writing
Born
1929-12-12 in Fulham, London, England
Died
1994-12-24
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Osborne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Great Performances
as Self
BBC Play of the Month
as Werner Roger
Flash Gordon
as Arborian Priest
First Love
as Maidanov
Supernatural
as Edward Manners
Get Carter
as Kinnear
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
as Self
Tomorrow Never Comes
as Lyne
A Sunday in September
as Self
A Better Class of Person
as Narrator
The Parachute
as Werner Roger