Served with the RAF during WWII

First stage success, "Flowering Cherry"

Briefly incarcerated, charged with "civil disobedience", for attending a demonstration for nuclear disarmament

First film as writer, also first collaboration with director David Lean, "Lawrence of Arabia"

Worked uncredited on the screenplay of Mikhail Kalatozov's "Krasnaja palatka/The Red Tent"

Film directing debut (also writer), "Lady Caroline Lamb"

Final screenplay credit, "The Mission"