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Born in London, England. The son of a barkeeper-commercial artist and a barmaid, he wrote for trade journals and acted on the stage before gaining sudden fame with his play Look Back in Anger, which heralded the advent of a generation of "angry young men" in English literature. He collaborated on the adaptation of two more of his own plays to the screen (THE ENTERTAINER, 1960, and INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE, 1968) and won an Academy Award for writing the script of Henry Fielding's TOM JONES (1963). His play Luther was adapted to the screen in 1973. In addition to writing extensively for television, he was a writer for Tony Palmer's ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND (1995).
Osborne also appeared in a few films and television programs as an actor (e.g., FLASH GORDON, 1980, GET CARTER, 1971, TOMORROW NEVER COMES, 1978). His second of five marriages (1957-1963) was to actress Mary Ure. The third wife was novelist and film critic Penelope Gilliatt.
1 nomination, 1 Award |
Writing (Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)