John Osborne
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, and entrepreneur, who is regarded as one of the most influential figures in post-war theatre. Born in London, he briefly worked as a journalist before starting out in theatre as a stage manager and actor. He lived in poverty for several years before his third produced play, Look Back in Anger (1956), brought him national fame.
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- Born in
- London
- Awards
- 🏆 Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay🏆 BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay🏆 Tony Award for Best Play🏆 Ackerley Prize
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Trending topics shown first"Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past."
"Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you."
"John Osborne spoke out in a vein of ebullient, free-wheeling rancour that betokened the arrival of something new in the theatre – a sophisticated, articulate lower-class. Most of the critics were offe…"
"Archie Rice: I'm dead behind these eyes. I'm dead, just like the whole inert, shoddy lot out there. It doesn't matter because I don't feel a thing, and neither do they."
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs."
"This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its …"
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1929
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