Dennis Potter

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Nationality: English
Birthdate: 05/17/1935
Birthplace: Forest of Dean, Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 06/07/1994

biography

One of the leading English playwrights of the latter half of the 20th Century, as well as an intelligent, vigorous and important writer working in TV from the late 1960s until his death, Dennis Potter adapted several of his works for film as well, contributing original screenplays for "Gorky Park" (1983), "Dreamchild" (1985) and "Track 29" (1987). Beginning as a newspaper journalist and TV critic, he wrote and produced documentaries for the BBC in the early 1960s. He showed an early interest in politics with his two "Nigel Barton" plays as well as his unsuccessful attempt to run for political Continued

Credits

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milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in the west of England, near Wales
1949 
Family moved to London when Potter was 14 (date approximate)
 
Turned to TV writing in the 1960s
1960 
Wrote first novel, "The Glittering Coffin"
 
Wrote and produced documentaries after he graduated from college as part of the current affairs department of the BBC; one of the first was "Between Two Rivers" (1960), about the area of his upbringing, which he narrated as well as wrote
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