Alan Bennett
Sign in to saveEnglish actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1934)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1934
- Works
- 101
Top works
- The Library Book
- The History Boys
- The Wind in the Willows - Reading
- כל כללי הטקס
- ha-Zayin shel Ḳafḳa
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Film & TV
Writing · Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond…
Known for
- Innes Lloyd: The Producer — Self2025
- Alan Bennett: 90 Years On2024
- Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War2022
- Stewart Lee: Tornado — Self2022
- Remembers… — Self2022
- Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety — Himself2017
- Alan Bennett's Diaries — Himself2016
- The Lady in the Van — Alan Bennett (2014)2015
- Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time — Mole (voice)2013
- The Native Hue of Resolution2013
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
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- 2,966
- Total plays
- 85,104
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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright. Early years Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unre
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,660x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,451x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 17,764x
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Key dates
- Born
- 9 May 1934
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Family name
- Bennett
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Armley
- Occupation
- comedian
- Employer
- University of Oxford
- Languages spoken
- English language
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