Alan Bennett
Born May 09, 1934 (Age: 91)
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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.
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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Filmography
The Lady in the Van
2015
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as Alan Bennett (2014)
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Age: 81
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011
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as Self
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Age: 77
Being Alan Bennett
2009
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as Himself
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Age: 75
Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
1998
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as (voice)
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Age: 63
The Willows in Winter
1996
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as Mole
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Age: 62
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse
1996
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as Timmy Willie (voice)
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Age: 62
In Love and War
1996
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as Porter
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Age: 62
The Madness of King George
1994
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as 2nd MP
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Age: 60
Selling Hitler
1993
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as Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Age: 58
Julie Walters and Friends
1991
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as
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Age: 57
Dinner at Noon
1988
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as Himself - Presenter
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Age: 54
Talking Heads
1988
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as
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Age: 53
Little Dorrit
1987
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as The Bishop
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Age: 53
Dreamchild
1985
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as Mock Turtle (voice)
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Age: 51
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 44
Long Shot
1978
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as Neville's Doctor
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Age: 44
A Visit from Miss Prothero
1978
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as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 43
Hamlet
1970
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as Osric
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Age: 36
No Image
The Drinking Party
1965
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as Eryximachus
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Age: 31
Beyond the Fringe
1964
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as Various Characters
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Age: 30