Was member of Donald Wolfit's Shakespeare Company

As actor, appeared in "The Strong Are Lonely"

Co-wrote "The Barber of Stamford Hill" for TV

Published first novel, "All the Same Shadows"

Wrote first produced screenplay, "The Barber of Stamford Hill"

Wrote first produced play, "Country Matters"

Wrote screenplay for "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

Hosted radio series, "Kaleidoscope"

Was member, literature panel, Arts Council of Great Britain

Served as artistic director, Cheltenha, Festival of Literature

Hosted TV series, "Read All About It" (BBC)

"The Dresser" premiered in London

Broadway debut as author, "The Dresser"

Wrote NBC TV-movie "Evita Peron," starring Faye Dunaway

Adapted "The Dresser" for features; earned Oscar nomination for screenplay

Wrote British series, "All the World's a Stage"

Was visitor in theatre, Balliol College, Oxford University

Wrote HBO original movie, "Mandela"

Penned adaptation of "Cry, the Beloved Country"

Play "Taking Sides" produced on Broadway

Wrote screenplay adaptation of play "Taking Sides"; screened at Toronto Film Festival

Premiered new play "Mahler's Conversion", about the composer's religious conversion from Judaism to Catholicism; Antony Sher starred as Mahler

With Roman Polanski, co-wrote the screenplay for "The Pianist"; received a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay (Adapted)

Penned the screenplay for "Being Julia," starring Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons

Penned the Roman Polanski directed version of "Oliver Twist," starring Ben Kingsley

Penned the feature adaptation of "Love in the Time of Cholera" directed by Mike Newell

Wrote the screenplay adaption for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," based on the French memoir Le scaphandre et le papillon by Jean-Dominique Bauby; earned Golden Globe, Oscar and Independent Spirit Award Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay