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Barry Hines
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, part…
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An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire. He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal. He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.
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2025
Survivors: The Spectre of Threads
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Movie Self (archive Footage)
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1992
Born Kicking
Movie Writer
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1990
Shooting Stars
Movie Writer
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1989
Screen One
TV show Writer
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1984
Threads
Movie Writer
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1981
Looks and Smiles
Movie Writer
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1980
The Gamekeeper
Movie Novel
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1977
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Movie Writer
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1977
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
Movie Writer
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1976
Two Men from Derby
Movie Writer
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1973
Centre Play
TV show Writer
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1973
Speech Day
Movie Writer
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1971
Billy's Last Stand
Movie Writer
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Writer
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1970
Kes
Movie Novel
