Alan Bennett

Known for WritingBorn 1934-05-09 (age 92)Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Native Hue of Resolution

Breaking Up

A Woman of No Importance.

Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Intensive Care

Long Shot

Talking Heads 2

Hallmark Hall of Fame

National Theatre Live: People

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art

Meg and Mog

Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

Selling Hitler

Dinner at Noon

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Objects of Affection

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Remembers…

Tempo

Family Guy

102 Boulevard Haussmann

Innes Lloyd: The Producer

Sunset Across the Bay

Stewart Lee: Tornado

Beyond the Fringe

Screen One

The Wind in the Willows

Screen Two

The Importance of Being Morrissey

Julie Walters and Friends

Omnibus

All Day on the Sands

A Visit from Miss Prothero

BBC2 Play of the Week

Premiere

Pleasure at Her Majesty's

The Madness of King George

A Question of Attribution

Hamlet

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The Willows in Winter

On the Margin

The History Boys

The Choral

Talking Heads

Prick Up Your Ears

The Lady in the Van

National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III