Robert Bolt biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Robert Bolt

Author Name:

Robert Bolt

Born As:

Robert Oxton Bolt

Other Names:

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE

Born:

15 Aug 1924

Died:

12 Feb 1995




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Dramatist and screenwriter                          
Selected Works:

Radio Plays adapted for the stage:

The Last of the Wine - 1956
The Critic and the Heart - 1957 a  re-write,  retitled Brother and Sister - 1967.
The Flowering Cherry - 1958
The Tiger and the Horse - 1960
A Man for All Seasons - 1960 - made into a film - 1966
Gentle Jack - 1963
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew - 1964 - a children's radio  play, and then re-written into a children’s book.
Vivat! Vivat Regina! - 1971
State of Revolution - 1977

Screenplays:

Lady Caroline Lamb - 1972
Lawrence of Arabia - with Michael Wilson - 1962
Doctor Zhivago - 1965
A Man for All Seasons - 1966
The Red Tent - 1969
Ryan's Daughter - 1970
Lady Caroline Lamb - 1972 - also directed
The Bounty - 1984
The Mission - 1986
A Man for All Seasons - 1988
A Dry White Season - uncredited revisions of screenplay
Without Warning: The James Brady Story - 1991 - TV                          
Wife one Celia Ann Roberts - 1949-1967
Wife two Sarah Miles - 1967-1976
Wife three Ann Zane - 1980-1985
Wife four Sarah Miles - 1988-1995                          
Oscar	 Best Writing, Screenplay - 1967 - A Man for All Seasons
 
Oscar	 Best Writing, Screenplay - 1966 -  Doctor Zhivago                          
Imprisoned for protesting nuclear proliferation. Refused to be to sign a declaration that he would not engage in such activities again, and was sentenced to one month in prison.