AKA: Robert Oxton Bolt
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 08/15/1924
Birthplace: Sayles, Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Death Date: 02/20/1995
Despite his assertion that the "film writer is regarded as a technician, like an electrician," Bolt's writing has enjoyed a degree of respect in the movie world usually found only in the theater. He has won three best screenplay Oscars, two for his collaborations with David Lean--"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) and "Dr. Zhivago" (1965)--and one for Fred Zinnemann's "A Man for All Seasons" (1966). The critics took less kindly to his sole directorial effort, "Lady Caroline Lamb" (1972).
Play as Source Material
1966
Served with the RAF during WWII
1957
First stage success, "Flowering Cherry"
1961
Briefly incarcerated, charged with "civil disobedience", for attending a demonstration for nuclear disarmament
1962
First film as writer, also first collaboration with director David Lean, "Lawrence of Arabia"
1970
Worked uncredited on the screenplay of Mikhail Kalatozov's "Krasnaja palatka/The Red Tent"
