biography
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Bolt, Robert (Oxton)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924–95)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Sale, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Manchester University, served in the RAF and worked as a teacher before achieving success with A Man for All Seasons (1954). Other plays included The Tiger and the Horse (1960) and State of Revolution (1977). He also wrote screenplays, including Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Dr Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and The Mission (1986). He was an anti-nuclear activist in the 1960s, joining the ‘Committee of 100’, and was jailed for a month in 1961. He continued writing, despite being partly paralysed and left with speech difficulties, following a stroke in 1979. |
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