John Osborne

Known for WritingBorn 1929-12-12Died 1994-12-24Fulham, London, England

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Almost a Vision

The Gift of Friendship

Look Back in Anger

A Better Class of Person

Hedda Gabler

Ms or Jill and Jack

A Subject of Scandal and Concern

Supernatural

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

The Entertainer

You're Not Watching Me, Mummy

Colonel Redl

Get Carter

The Right Prospectus

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Inadmissible Evidence

ITV Playhouse

England, My England

Look Back in Anger

Flash Gordon

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Entertainer

Great Performances

Luther

Tom Jones

Tomorrow Never Comes

First Love

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

BBC Play of the Month

Very Like a Whale

Look Back in Anger

Branagh Theatre Live: The Entertainer

The Hotel in Amsterdam

The Parachute

Luther

A Sunday in September