biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928–80)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He left school at 14, coming back to study painting, then took a degree in fine arts at Durham (1953). After a period as a teacher, he became a full-time writer in the early 1960s. Winner of the 1965 Evening Standard Award for most promising playwright, his stage work includes Ride a Cock Horse (1965) and Cousin Vladimir (1978). His screenplays include Morgan (1965), and Providence (1977). He continued to address issues of personal alienation and the class system in later television plays such as Huggy Bear (1976) and Rod of Iron (1980). |
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