Alan Bennett
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 the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968. His output includes The Madness of George III and its film incarnation The Madness of King George, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Lady in the Van
as Alan Bennett (2014)The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman...
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The Madness of King George
as 2nd MPAging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in...
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In Love and War
as PorterAfter teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he...
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The Wind in the Willows
as MoleKenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted...
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Dreamchild
as Mock Turtle (voice)Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in...
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Alice in Wonderland
as MouseAlice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by...
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Little Dorrit
as The BishopA drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is...
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The Young Visiters
as Narrator (voice)The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal...
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Every Home Should Have One
as Defence SolicitorTeddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling...
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Alan Bennett: 90 Years On
as uncreditedIn May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of...
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The Willows in Winter
as MoleHailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically...
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National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
as HectorTo celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National...
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The Importance of Being Morrissey
as SelfFeaturing interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the...
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A Visit from Miss Prothero
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his...
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Afternoon Off
as Mr PettyLee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little...
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Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
as SelfA documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. ...
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Long Shot
as Neville's DoctorAgainst the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to...
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
as Justice ShallowWhen Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a...
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The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
as Self - Various RolesFollowing the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the...
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Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
as Narrator (voice)A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding,...
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Beyond the Fringe
as Various CharactersA TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in...
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Stewart Lee: Tornado
as SelfThe Bafta-winning Stewart Lee performs his latest touring show, focusing on a bizarrely...
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
as SelfThe Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand...
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Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
as uncreditedOne of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on...
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Selling Hitler
as Hugh Trevor-RoperIn 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes...
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Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
as Mole (voice)Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night...
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Intensive Care
as Denis MidgleyWhen Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side....
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Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
as HimselfThirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and...
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Pleasure at Her Majesty's
as SelfThe first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase...
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Julie Walters and Friends
as uncreditedJulie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous.
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Being Alan Bennett
as HimselfDocumentary providing a rare glimpse into the life of Alan Bennett, one of the UK's best-loved...
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Dinner at Noon
as Himself - PresenterWriter Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces...
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The Drinking Party
as EryximachusAn interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his...
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Talking Heads
as uncreditedSix monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother,...
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Books: The Last Chapter?
as SelfWill the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional...
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Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
as (voice)This animated clip comments on different educational opportunities for boys and girls, and...
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Alan Bennett's Diaries
as HimselfDocumentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the...
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The Native Hue of Resolution
as uncreditedA documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the...
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Family Guy
as Alan Bennett (voice)Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures...
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Play for Today
as Denis MidgleyPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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BBC Television Shakespeare
as uncreditedThe BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of...
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The South Bank Show
as SelfThe South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and...
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A Dance to the Music of Time
as SilleryA Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel...
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
as SelfA series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human...
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Fortunes of War
as Lord PinkroseFortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as OsricHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Talking Heads
as Graham WhittakerA series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by the acclaimed British playwright...
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Selling Hitler
as Hugh Trevor-RoperBased on the book by Robert Harris, this is a comic-dramatisation of the true story of the one...
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Meg and Mog
as OwlBritish children's series about a well-meaning witch, her anarchist cat, an owl and a bit of...
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Building Sights
as Self - PresenterPersonal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture.
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The Abbey with Alan Bennett
as SelfIn this captivating and insightful documentary, Alan Bennett takes on the role of a guide to...
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