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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gender
Male
Birthday
May 9, 1934
Birthplace
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Beyond the Fringe
1964
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
Dinner at Noon
1988
Alan Bennett: 90 Years On
2024
Alan Bennett's Diaries
2016
Alice in Wonderland
1966
Long Shot
1978
Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
1998
The Lady in the Van
2015
The Native Hue of Resolution
2013
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
Stewart Lee: Tornado
2022
In Love and War
1996
Little Dorrit
1987
The Drinking Party
1965
The Young Visiters
2003
The Madness of King George
1994
Being Alan Bennett
2009
Dreamchild
1985
Portrait or Bust
1994
+ 23 more movies
Family Guy
1999
Play for Today
1970
Omnibus
1967
The South Bank Show
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
The Abbey with Alan Bennett
1995
The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Fortunes of War
1987
Meg and Mog
2003
Tempo
1961
Building Sights
1988
Selling Hitler
1991
Talking Heads
1988
Ashenden
1991
The Glass Box
1985
On the Margin
1966
Julie Walters and Friends
1991