Served in the British Army, Intelligence Corps

Stage debut in the ensemble of the revue "Better Late"

Performed in "Beyond the Fringe" in Scotland and London with Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

Broadway debut with "Beyond the Fringe"

British TV acting debut in special farewell performance of "Beyond the Fringe" by the original cast

Scripted and acted in the award-winning BBC series "On the Margin"

Wrote and acted in two-act play "Forty Years On"

Authored another two-act, "Getting On"

"Habeas Corpus" appeared on Broadway two years after its Oxford, England debut

First film appearance in the performance documentary "Pleasure at Her Majesty's"

Feature acting debut, "Long Shot"

Specially written for TV, "By Alan Bennett--Six Plays" appeared in installments on London Weekend Television (LWT); four of the plays directed by Stephen Frears, who had acted with Bennett in "Long Shot"

John Schlesinger directed Bennett's "An Englishman Abroad" (BBC), a 65-minute script recreating a true meeting between the actress Coral Browne and exiled British traitor Guy Burgess in dreary 1950s Moscow

First produced screenplay, "A Private Function"

Wrote screenplay for "Prick Up Your Ears", adapting John Lahr's biography of playwright Joe Orton; directed by Frears

Played the Bishop in feature adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit"

Directed "Bed Among the Lentils" episode of BBC's "Talking Heads" series, starring Maggie Smith as the alcoholic wife of a trendy vicar; shown in the USA on PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre"

Authored play "The Wind in the Willows", adapted from Kenneth Grahame's children's book, and "The Lady in the Van", his memoir of a deranged woman who parked her car in his garden and stayed there for 15 years until her death in 1989 ("One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation"); "Lady in the Van" became the centerpiece of "Writing Home", his 1995 prose collection

Scripted BBC movie "102 Boulevard Haussmann", about French novelist Marcel Proust; aired in USA on Arts & Entertainment Network (A&E)

Had stage hit with "The Madness of George III", starring Nigel Hawthorne

Writer and actor in "A Chip in the Sugar", which appeared on "Masterpice Theatre" as part of "2 Monologus: In My Defense-A Chip in the Sugar"; one of the original six monologues of the BBC's "Talking Heads" series

Second collaboration with director Schlesinger, "A Question of Attribution"; shown as part of "Masterpiece Theatre"

Received Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, "The Madness of King George" (from his 1991 play); also appeared in cameo near its end as a member of Parliament

Voiced the mole in the animated feature adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows"; released theatrically in the UK; aired on the Family Channnel in the USA

Wrote and appeared in the BBC's "Westminster Documentary", which aired on PBS

Acted in miniseries adaptation of Anthony Powell's novel "A Dance to the Music of Time"; telecast aired on Channel 4 in Great Britain

Returned to playwrighting with "The Lady in the Van", starring Maggie Smith; based on true life incident recounted in Bennett's memoirs

Wrote the critically-acclaimed play, "The History Boys" which premiered at the National Theatre; opened on Broadway in 2006

Penned the film adaptation of his award-winning play, "The History Boys"