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Alan Clarke

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Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer. [1]

57 relations: Alun Owen, Andrea Dunbar, Baal (play), BBC, Bernard MacLaverty, Bertolt Brecht, Big Breadwinner Hog, Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire, Borstal, British Film Institute, Colin Welland, Columbine High School massacre, Danny Brocklehurst, Danton's Death, David Bowie, David Leland, David Rudkin, David Thomson (film critic), Derek Bentley case, Edna O'Brien, Elephant (1989 film), Elephant in the room, Funny Farm (play), Gabriel Clarke, Gary Oldman, Gus Van Sant, Harmony Korine, Joel Potrykus, London, Made in Britain, Mark Cousins (film critic), Minority group, Northern Ireland, Paul Greengrass, Penda's Fen, Peter Medak, Play for Today, Play of the Month, Ray Winstone, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Road (play), Roy Minton, Screenonline, Scum (film), Scum (television play), Sight & Sound, Social realism, Stand by Your Screen, Stephen Frears, The Firm (1989 film), ..., The Love-Girl and the Innocent, The Questors Theatre, The Troubles, The Wednesday Play, Tim Roth, Wallasey, White power skinhead. Expand index (7 more) »

Alun Owen

Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh screenwriter and actor predominantly active in television.

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Andrea Dunbar

Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) was a British playwright best known for The Arbor and Rita, Sue and Bob Too, an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire.

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Baal (play)

Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bernard MacLaverty

Bernard MacLaverty (born 14 September 1942) is a Northern Irish writer of fiction.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Big Breadwinner Hog

Big Breadwinner Hog is a British television thriller serial devised by Robin Chapman, produced by Granada TV and transmitted in eight parts, starting at 9.00pm on 11 April 1969 on the ITV network.

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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is a 1985 British musical film starring Phil Daniels and Alun Armstrong.

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Borstal

A borstal was a type of youth detention centre in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Colin Welland

Colin Welland (4 July 1934 – 2 November 2015), born Colin Edward Williams, was a British actor and screenwriter.

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Columbine High School massacre

The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, in the Denver metropolitan area.

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Danny Brocklehurst

Danny Brocklehurst (born June 1971 in Hyde, Cheshire) is a BAFTA and International Emmy winning English screenwriter.

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Danton's Death

Danton's Death (Dantons Tod) was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Leland

David Leland (born 20 April 1947) is a film director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987.

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David Rudkin

James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright of Northern Irish descent.

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David Thomson (film critic)

David Thomson (born 18 February 1941) is a British film critic and historian based in the United States and the author of more than 20 books.

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Derek Bentley case

Derek Bentley (30 June 1933 – 28 January 1953) was an English man who was hanged for the murder of a policeman, which was committed in the course of a burglary attempt.

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Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien, DBE (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer.

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Elephant (1989 film)

Elephant is a 1989 British short film directed by Alan Clarke and produced by Danny Boyle.

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Elephant in the room

Elephant in the room is an English-language metaphorical idiom for an obvious problem or risk that no one wants to discuss.

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Funny Farm (play)

Funny Farm is a 1975 television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke, broadcast as part of BBC 1's Play for Today series on 27 February 1975 (91 mins).

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Gabriel Clarke

Gabriel Clarke is an award-winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker.

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Gary Oldman

Gary Leonard OldmanBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005. (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker who has performed in theatre, film and television.

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.

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Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973)"." Retrieved on 2009-10-26.

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Joel Potrykus

Joel Potrykus is an American film director and screenwriter.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Made in Britain

Made in Britain is a 1982 British television play written by David Leland, and directed by Alan Clarke, about a 16-year-old racist skinhead named Trevor (played by Tim Roth), and his constant confrontations with authority figures.

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Mark Cousins (film critic)

Mark Cousins (born 3 May 1965) is a director and occasional presenter/critic on film.

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Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Paul Greengrass

Paul Greengrass (born 13 August 1955) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.

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Penda's Fen

Penda's Fen is a British television play which was written by David Rudkin and directed by Alan Clarke.

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Peter Medak

Peter Medak (born Medák Péter, 23 December 1937) is a Hungarian-born film director and television director of British and American productions.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Play of the Month

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series, which ran from 1965 to 1983 featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays (or adaptations) which were usually broadcast on BBC1.

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Ray Winstone

Raymond Andrew "Ray" Winstone (born 19 February 1957) is an English film and television actor.

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a 1987 British comedy-drama film directed by Alan Clarke, set in Bradford, West Yorkshire about two teenaged schoolgirls who have a sexual fling with a married man.

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Road (play)

Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright, and was first produced in 1986.

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Roy Minton

Roy Minton (born, in Nottingham, England) is an English playwright best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Scum (film)

Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke and starring Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth and John Blundell.

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Scum (television play)

Scum is a 1977 British television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke.

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Sight & Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).

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Social realism

Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and to voice the authors' critique of the social structures behind these conditions.

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Stand by Your Screen

Stand By Your Screen was a 1968 play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clarke.

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Stephen Frears

Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director.

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The Firm (1989 film)

The Firm is a 1989 British made-for-television drama film directed by Alan Clarke and written by Al Hunter Ashton for the BBC.

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The Love-Girl and the Innocent

The Love-Girl and the Innocent (also translated The Tenderfoot and the Tart) is a play in four acts by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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The Questors Theatre

The Questors Theatre is a theatre venue located in the London Borough of Ealing, west London.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century.

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The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970.

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Tim Roth

Simon Timothy Roth (born 14 May 1961) is an English actor and director.

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Wallasey

Wallasey is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England, on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the northeastern corner of the Wirral Peninsula.

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White power skinhead

White power skinheads are members of a white supremacist and antisemitic offshoot of the skinhead subculture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Clarke

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