John James Osborne biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of John James Osborne

Author Name:

John James Osborne

Born As:

John James Osborne

Other Names:

Born:

12 Dec 1929

Died:

24 Dec 1994




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Playwright                          
Selected Works:
		

The Devil Inside - Theatre - 1950
The Great Bear - Theatre - 1951
Personal Enemy - Theatre - 1955	with Anthony Creighton
Look Back in Anger - Theatre - 1956	
The Entertainer - Theatre - 1957	
Epitaph for George Dillon - Theatre - 1958, with Anthony Creighton
The World Of Paul Slickey - 1959
A Subject Of Scandal And Concern - TV - 1960
	
Plays for England - Theatre - 1962	
The Blood Of The Bambergs - 1962		
Under Plain Cover - 1962	
Tom Jones	Screenplay - Theatre - 1963	
Inadmissible Evidence - Theatre - 1964	
A Patriot For Me - Theatre - 1965	
A Bond Honoured - Theatre - 1966, One-act adaptation of Lope de Vega's La fianza satisfecha
The Hotel In Amsterdam - Theatre - 1968	
Time Present	 - Theatre - 1968	
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Screenplay - 1968	
The Right Prospectus - TV - 1970	
West Of Suez - Theatre - 1971	
A Sense Of Detachment - Theatre - 1972	
The Gift Of Friendship - TV - 1972	
Hedda Gabler - Theatre - 1972	Ibsen adaptation
A Place Calling Itself Rome - Theatre - 1973, Coriolanus adaptation, unproduced
Ms, Or Jill And Jack - TV - 1974	
The End Of Me Old Cigar - Theatre - 1975	
The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Theatre - 1975	Wilde adaptation
Almost A Vision - TV - 1976	
Watch It Come Down - 1976	
Try A Little Tenderness - 1978
Very Like A Whale - TV - 1980	
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy	 - TV - 1980	
A Better Class Of Person - TV - 1985	
God Rot Tunbridge Wells - TV - 1985	
The Father - Theatre - 1989, Strindberg adaptation
Déjàvu - Theatre - 1992.                          
Mother Nellie Beatrice
Father Thomas Godfrey Osborne

John Osborne  was married five times; the first four ended in divorce, the last in his death:
1. Pamela Lane - 1951-1957; inspired Alison Porter from Look Back in Anger.
2. Mary Ure - 1957-1963.
3. Penelope Gilliatt - 1963-1968.
4. Jill Bennett - 1968-1977.
5. Helen Dawson - former arts journalist and critic for The Observer, 1978-1994.