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Evan Jones
Hector's River, Portland, Jamaica
Evan Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was a Jamaican screenwriter, playwright poet and novelist. He is best known for his screenplay for Wake in Fright (1971), a Palme d'O…
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Evan Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was a Jamaican screenwriter, playwright poet and novelist. He is best known for his screenplay for Wake in Fright (1971), a Palme d'Or nominated, 2009 Cannes Classic championed by Martin Scorsese; it is one of only two films to ever be presented twice at the festival. Jones was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for The Fight Against Slavery (1975), a limited series created and presented by him for the BBC. He is also the writer of Madhouse on Castle Street (1963), a television play which featured the acting debut of Bob Dylan. Over the course of his career, Jones collaborated with a number of notable figures of twentieth century cinema, including Joseph Losey, Harold Pinter, John Huston, Michael Caine, Dirk Bogarde, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow. Jones' archive is held by the Bodleian Library at his alma mater, the University of Oxford, who displayed his poetry as part of their 2024–5 exhibition Write Cut Rewrite.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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1998
Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names
Movie Himself
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1992
Shadow of the Wolf
Movie Screenplay
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1990
A Show of Force
Movie Screenplay
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1990
Chillers
TV show Writer
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1986
Kangaroo
Movie Screenplay
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1984
Champions
Movie Screenplay
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1981
The Killing of Angel Street
Movie Writer
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1981
Escape to Victory
Movie Screenplay
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1977
Rehearsal
Movie Writer
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1976
The Man with the Power
Movie Writer
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1975
The Fight Against Slavery
TV show Creator
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1974
Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1973
Night Watch
Movie Screenplay
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1973
Centre Play
TV show Writer
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1973
Away from It All
TV show Writer
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1973
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Movie Writer
More credits
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1971
Wake in Fright
Movie Screenplay
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1969
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Funeral in Berlin
Movie Screenplay
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1966
Modesty Blaise
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Writer
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1965
Old Man's Fancy
Movie Writer
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1964
King and Country
Movie Screenplay
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1963
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Movie Writer
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1962
The Damned
Movie Screenplay
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1962
Eva
Movie Writer
