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Rudyard Kipling
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India [now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India]
Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so…
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Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so he was brought up by Indian nurses ("ayahs"), who taught him something of the beliefs and tongues of India. He was sent "home" to England at the age of six to live with a foster mother, who treated him very cruelly.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2027
National Theatre Live: The Jungle Book
Movie Book
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2026
The Boots on the Western Front
Movie Writer
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2025
Boots
Movie Original Film Writer
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2023
It's Pretty, but is it Art?
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
The Jungle Book
Movie Original Story
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2020
Mowgli's 4D Jungle Adventure
Movie Book
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2018
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Movie Novel
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2016
The Jungle Book
Movie Novel
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2013
Scape
Movie Story
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2013
The Jungle Book: The Movie
Movie Novel
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2012
Rudyard Kipling's Mark of the Beast
Movie Story
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2010
The Jungle Book
TV show Creator
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2008
Just So Stories
TV show Original Story
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2006
Jungle Book 3D Rikki-Tikki-Tavi To The Rescue
Movie Novel
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1998
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
Movie Novel
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1997
The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo
Movie Novel
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1996
Captains Courageous
Movie Writer
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1995
Jungle Book
Movie Novel
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1994
The Jungle Book
Movie Novel
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1993
They
Movie Story
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1992
Jungleboek
TV show Novel
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1992
The Jungle Book
Movie Writer
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1991
Kim
Movie Novel
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1991
The Adventures of the Maltese Cat
Movie Author
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1990
Jungle Book
Movie Novel
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1989
Maggie
Movie Writer
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1989
Rabbit Ears - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Movie Author
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1988
The Cat Who Walked by Herself
Movie Story
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1984
Ruthless Romance
Movie Poem
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1984
Kim
Movie Novel
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1984
How the First Letter Was Written
Movie Story
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1983
Just So Stories
TV show Writer
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1982
Stalky & Co
TV show Novel
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1982
American Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1981
Ёжик плюс черепаха
Movie Book
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1977
Captains Courageous
Movie Novel
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1977
Childhood
TV show Writer
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1976
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Movie Novel
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1976
Mowgli's Brothers
Movie Story
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1975
The Man Who Would Be King
Movie Story
