Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 20
Bennett in 1973; photographed by Allan Warren
Bennett (second left, on top of the piano) in Beyond the Fringe on Broadway c. 1962. Also pictured are (left to right): Dudley Moore (seated at the piano), Peter Cook and Jonathan Miller.
A 2007 production of Bennett's The History Boys at The Doon School, India.
The headstone, in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, of Alan Bennett's Uncle Clarence, subject of a 1985 radio monologue
The Lady in the Van
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The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on his earlier memoir and stage play of the same name, created b
Alan Bennett
…his plays at the Royal National Theatre. The following plays were adapted into films: The Madness of King George (1994), The History Boys (2006), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Bennett was born on 9 May 1934 in Armley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The younger son of a Co-op butcher, Walter, and his wife, Lilian…
Theatrical release poster
23 Gloucester Crescent in 2019