Bridget Boland

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Bridget Mary Boland (born March 13, 1913 in London , † January 19, 1988 in Surrey ) was a British screenwriter and playwright .

Life

Roland was one of five daughters of the Irish politician John Pius Boland , who won the first two gold medals as a tennis player in 1896 . Her sister Honor Crowley was a well-known Irish politician. Bridget Roland enjoyed her education at the Convent of Sacred Herat private school in Roehampton and then studied at the University of Oxford . During World War II , she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service . There she wrote and organized various plays that were used to entertain the troupe.

She then wrote several plays, three novels and several scripts. For her script about Queen for a Thousand Days , she was nominated for an Oscar together with her co-authors John Hale and Richard Sokolove and also won the Golden Globe Award .

Filmography

Plays

  • 1948: The Arabian Nights
  • 1948: cockpit
  • 1950: The Damascus Blade
  • 1952: The Return (also: Journey to the Earth )
  • 1954: The Prisoner
    • The prisoner . Lucerne: Rex Verlag 1958.
  • 1961: Gordon
  • 1963: The Zodiac in the Establishment
  • 1965: A Juan by Degrees

Novels

  • The Wild Geese , 1938
    • The wild geese . Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1938.
  • Portrait of a Lady in Love , 1942
  • Caterina , 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boland, Bridget. British Film Institute Film & TV Database, accessed January 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ Acting is not for grown-ups . In: Catholic Herald . July 24, 1970, p. 3 ( catholicherald.co.uk ). Acting Is not for grown-ups ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archive.catholicherald.co.uk
  3. ↑ Boland, Bridget. A Bit of History, accessed January 25, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Boland, Bridget
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boland, Bridget Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1988
Place of death Surrey