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John Osborne. Writer: Tom Jones. The Oscar-winning screenwriter John Osborne, better known as one of the most important British playwrights of the 1950s generation that revolutionized English-speaking theater, was born on December 12, 1929 in London, England. His father, Thomas Godfrey Osborne, a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, was a copywriter, and his mother, Nellie, was a Cockney barmaid.
John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity. Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life.
John Osborne’s most generous critics credit him with having transformed the English stage on a single night: May 8, 1956, when Look Back in Anger opened at the Royal Court Theatre. He is ...
John Osborne (Londres, 1929 - Shropshire, Reino Unido, 1994) Dramaturgo británico. El primer libro de su autobiografía, A Better Class of Person (1989), describe su infancia en los suburbios, su breve experiencia como periodista y sus años como actor de provincias, durante los cuales comenzó a escribir sus primeras obras de teatro, representándose la primera de ellas en 1950.
8 de mar. de 2007 · By. PopMatters Staff. / 8 March 2007. “There were two Johns,” a neighbor of John Osborne’s told John Heilpern. “He could be the nicest person you could ever meet or the rudest ...
John James Osborne (December 12, 1929 – December 24, 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, and critic of The Establishment. The stunning success of his 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, transformed English theater. In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film, and television.
John Osborne, (born Dec. 12, 1929, London, Eng.—died Dec. 24, 1994, Shropshire), British playwright and film producer.Initially an actor, he cowrote his first play, The Devil Inside Him (1950), with Stella Linden. His Look Back in Anger (1956; film, 1959) ushered in a spate of vigorously realistic plays about contemporary British working-class life, making Osborne the first of the postwar ...
