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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 92
Top works
- Ikari o komete furikaere
- Paṭriyoṭ le-ʻatsmi
- Luther
- Look back in anger
- New horizons in concrete blockwork
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 373
- Total plays
- 2,892
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
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Quotes
- “Jimmy Porter: They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.”
- “George Dillon: [I]t's easy to answer the ultimate questions – it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”
- “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 death.”
- “Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.”
- “Archie Rice: Don't clap too hard – it's a very old building.”
- “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.”
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Key facts
- Born
- John James Osborne , ( 1929-12-12 ) 12 December 1929, Fulham , London , England
- Died
- 24 December 1994 (1994-12-24) (aged 65), Clun , Shropshire , England
- Occupation
- Playwright screenwriter political activist
- Period
- 1950–1992
- Genre
- Social realism kitchen sink drama
- Literary movement
- Angry Young Men
- Notable works
- Look Back in Anger , The Entertainer , Inadmissible Evidence
- Notable awards
- Tony Award for Best Play ( Luther , 1964 ), Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Tom Jones , 1964 ), BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay ( Tom Jones , 1964 )
- Spouse
- Pamela Lane, Mary Ure , Penelope Gilliatt , Jill Bennett , Helen Dawson
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- John Osborne by Reginald Gray.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1929-12-12
- date of death
- 1994-12-24
- start of work period
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- John Osborne
- birth name
- John James Osborne
- name in native language
- John Osborne
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John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) 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.