Simon Gray
Simon James Holliday Gray , CBE (born October 21, 1936 on Hayling Island , England , † August 6, 2008 in London , England) was an English playwright who also published some novels and autobiographical works.
Life
Simon Gray attended Westminster School , Dalhousie University in Halifax , Nova Scotia and Trinity College in Cambridge . Most recently he lived in London.
Gray has written over 30 plays including Butley , Quartermaine's Terms , several television films, scripts, and a few other popular plays. He worked several times with actor Alan Bates and director Harold Pinter . Peter Bowles , Edward Fox and Clive Francis appeared in his plays. The main roles in his plays are often played by middle-aged men. The plays are often about educated intellectuals.
In 2004, Simon Gray was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for contributions to drama and literature. The chain smoker Gray had published the third part of his autobiography in 2008 under the title The Smoking Diaries ; He reports on his fight with metastatic lung cancer with black joke in the posthumously published Coda (2008). He died on August 6, 2008 of an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray, Simon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gray, Simon James Holliday |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hayling Island |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 2008 |
| Place of death | London |