Terence Rattigan

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan ['rætɪgan] CBE (born June 10, 1911 in London , † November 30, 1977 in Hamilton ) was a British playwright and screenwriter . He wrote social amusements and timely problem pieces, including Love in Idleness (1944), The Winslow Case (1946), Deep Blue Sea (1952). For his screenplay for the British feature film Conflict of the Heart , he received the prize for best screenplay at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival . At the Oscar ceremony in 1953 he was for his work on the film The Sound Barrier for the Oscar in the category Original Screenplay Best nominated. Another Oscar nomination followed in 1959 , this time in the Best Adapted Screenplay category .

Filmography

script

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  • 1983: Separate Tables ( separate tables )
  • 1987: Murder as a Passion ( Cause Celebre )
  • 1994: Scream into the Past ( The Browning Version )
  • 1999: Winslow Boy ( The Winslow Boy )

literature

  • Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG: The Brockhaus Multimedial premium 2005
  • Holly Hill: A Critical Analysis of the Plays of Terence Rattigan. Doctoral dissertation, NYU, 1977.
  • Michael Darlow, Gillian Hobson: Terence Rattigan - The Man & His Work. Quartet Books, London 1979 (2010).
  • Susan Rusinko: Terence Rattigan. Twayne, Boston 1983.
  • BA Young: The Rattigan Version - The Theater of Character. Hamish Hamilton, London 1986.
  • Geoffrey Wansell: Terence Rattigan - A Biography. Fourth Estate Limited, London 1995 (2009).
  • Sean O'Connor: Straight Acting - Popular Gay drama from Wilde to Rattigan. Cassel, London 1998.
  • Dominic Shellard: British Theater Since the War. Yale University Press, New Haven / London 1999.
  • Christopher Innes: Modern British Drama 1890-1990. 2nd edition, CUO, Cambridge 2002/2009.
  • Michael Billington: The State of the Nation. Faber, London 2008.
  • Dan Rebellato: 1956 and All That - the making of modern British drama. Routledge, London 1999/2006.
    • See also Dan Rebellato's extensive introductions to the newer Nick Hern Books editions of Rattigan's major works

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SURNAME Rattigan, Terence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rattigan, Terence Mervyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1977
Place of death Hamilton