John Hale (screenwriter)

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John Hale born as John Barry Hale (born February 5, 1926 in Woolwich , England ) is a British screenwriter and actor , who has been featured in films such as Queen for a Thousand Days , The Second Life of Mr. Soames , Mary Queen of Scots, Queen of Scotland or Crossfire the agent became known internationally.

life and career

John Barry Hale, born in 1926 to Alfred John (a soldier) and Ethel (Barr) Hale in Woolwich, a part of the Docklands in south-east London, worked first as the founder and artistic director of the Lincoln Theater between 1955 and 1958, then from 1958 until 1959 as artistic director at the Arts Theater in Ipswich , then from 1959 to 1961 in Bristol at the Old Vic, later from 1988 to 1971 again artistic director at the Greenwich Theater. In addition to his work as artistic director at the theater and his work as a freelance novelist and playwright , Hale has also worked as a screenwriter for film and television since 1964. He often worked for television series.

His breakthrough as a screenwriter in the cinema came in 1969 when he wrote the script for Charles Jarrott's historical drama Queen for a Thousand Days with Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold together with Bridget Boland and Richard Sokolove . For the film, John Hale's team of writers received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award . A year later he wrote the script for the science fiction drama The Second Life of Mr. Soames, starring Terence Stamp , Robert Vaughn and Nigel Davenport . The director was Alan Cooke. In 1971 Charles Jarrott asked him to write another screenplay for him, this time for the period film Maria Stuart, Queen of Scotland . The protagonists in the film were Vanessa Redgrave , Glenda Jackson and Patrick McGoohan . Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, he began writing again for television. In 1986, based on his novel The Whistle Blower, the story of the Michael Caine film Crossfire of the Agents , directed by Simon Langton, was created .

In addition to his work as a screenwriter, John Hale also occasionally worked as an actor, among other things, he was seen in the television series Crooks against Crooks with David Niven and Charles Boyer , in addition in 1965 in Robert Mulligan's film production Damned, Sweet World , and in 1968 in John Cassavete's drama Faces or in the mid-1990s in the television miniseries Nostromo - The Treasure in the Mountains .

Since August 1950, Hale has been married to Valerie June Bryan, an artist. The children from the marriage: Simon John Hale and Felicity Joanna Hale.

Awards (selection)

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

as a screenwriter

watch TV

as a screenwriter
  • 1964–1967: ITV Play of the Week (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 1966: You Can't Win (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1966: Thirteen Against Fate (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1966–1972: Armchair Theater (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1967: The Queen's Traitor (TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 1967: Out of Town Theater (TV miniseries, 1 episode)
  • 1967–1968: ITV Playhouse (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1969: The Distracted Preacher (TV movie)
  • 1969–1973: ITV Saturday Night Theater (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1971: Elizabeth R (TV miniseries, 1 episode)
  • 1973: Ego Hugo (TV movie)
  • 1975 The Love School (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1981: BBC2 Playhouse (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1991: Children of the North (TV series, 4 episodes)
  • 1996–1997: Nostromo - The Treasure in the Mountains (TV miniseries, 4 episodes)
as an actor
  • 1964–1965: crooks against crooks (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1965: Damn, Sweet World (Inside Daisy Clover)
  • 1968: Faces
  • 1969: The Trail of Jim Sonnett (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1996–1997: Nostromo - The Treasure in the Mountains (TV miniseries, 4 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Hale . in: The Writers Directory 1980-1982. , Springer, 2016, p. 511
  2. ↑ John Hale . in: Film Reference. , Theater, Film, and Television Biographies
personal data
SURNAME Hale, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hale, John Barry (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Woolwich , England