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Simon Gray
Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, UK
British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-clas…
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British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. "It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you." His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays. Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigour, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2018
Trust
Movie Jimmy
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2006
Two Nights
Movie Cinematography
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1993
Femme Fatale
Movie Writer
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1992
Unnatural Pursuits
TV show Writer
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1992
Common Pursuit
Movie Writer
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1992
Running Late
Movie Writer
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1991
They Never Slept
Movie Writer
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1989
Screen One
TV show Writer
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1987
A Month in the Country
Movie Screenplay
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1987
Quartermaine's Terms
Movie Writer
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1987
After Pilkington
Movie Writer
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1985
Screen Two
TV show Writer
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1980
The Rear Column
Movie Writer
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1975
Two Sundays
Movie Writer
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1975
Plaintiffs and Defendants
Movie Writer
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1974
Butley
Movie Writer
More credits
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1971
The Man in the Sidecar
Movie Writer
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Writer
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1969
W. Somerset Maugham
TV show Writer
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Writer
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1968
The Jazz Age
TV show Writer
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1968
Spoiled
Movie Writer
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1967
Sleeping Dog
Movie Writer
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1967
ITV Playhouse
TV show Writer
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1967
Death of a Teddy Bear
Movie Writer
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Writer
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1964
The Wednesday Play
TV show Writer
