File:John_Osborne_(playwright).jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
OverviewAI-generated
John Osborne (1929–1994) was an author whose career began in 1950. His published works include *Look back in anger*, *Luther*, *New horizons in concrete blockwork*, *Ikari o komete furikaere*, and *Paṭriyoṭ le-ʻatsmi*. Open Library records 92 works associated with him, while Crossref lists five.
Osborne is also associated with radio and John Peel, as indicated by tags on Last.fm. Quotes attributed to his characters include Jimmy Porter’s remark that people spend their time looking forward to the past, and Archie Rice’s warning not to clap too hard in a very old building.
Synthesized by Vinony from 18 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 373
- Total plays
- 2,892
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Osborne">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,214x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,472x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,863x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,503x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,110x
via Crossref · CC0
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.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
via Wikipedia infobox
~30 min read
Encyclopedic overview
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Osborne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.