Alan Bennett
Birthday: 1934-05-09
Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968. His output includes The Madness of George III and its film incarnation The Madness of King George, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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In Love and War
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters -...
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Beyond the Fringe
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in Lon...
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Pleasure at Her Majesty's
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at He...
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-...
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Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook....
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The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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The Willows in Winter
Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed s...
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on com...
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Selling Hitler
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Stewart Lee: Tornado
The Bafta-winning Stewart Lee performs his latest touring show, focusing on a bizarrely erroneous de...
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Books: The Last Chapter?
Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books...
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Intensive Care
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They'...
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Afternoon Off
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. T...
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Talking Heads
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a v...
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The Madness of King George
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
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Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party...
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Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lew...
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The Young Visiters
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blen...
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Dreamchild
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in hono...
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The Native Hue of Resolution
A documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the prese...
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Alan Bennett's Diaries
Documentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the fil...
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The Importance of Being Morrissey
Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of...
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: ...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentr...
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My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Sam was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder called Familial Dysautonomia. When born, he had...
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Being Alan Bennett
Documentary providing a rare glimpse into the life of Alan Bennett, one of the UK's best-loved write...
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Every Home Should Have One
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen p...
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Long Shot
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk...
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A Visit from Miss Prothero
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late...
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Portrait or Bust
Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery....
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Dinner at Noon
Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces abou...
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Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
This animated clip comments on different educational opportunities for boys and girls, and points ou...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of...
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The Lady in the Van
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of u...
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Julie Walters and Friends
Julie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous....
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The Drinking Party
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. E...
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Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his w...
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Alan Bennett: 90 Years On
In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of Britain...
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Thora Hird Tribute
Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron an...
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Innes Lloyd: The Producer
A look at the life and work of television producer Innes Lloyd...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 7. Two stories about homes: the first tells about t...
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