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Alan Bennett
Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxfo…
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Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968. His output includes The Madness of George III and its film incarnation The Madness of King George, the series of monologues Talking Heads, the play The History Boys, and popular audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
The Choral
Movie Writer
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2025
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
Movie Self
- 2024
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2023
Allelujah
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Stewart Lee: Tornado
Movie Self
- 2022
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2022
Remembers…
TV show Self
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2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV show Writer
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2018
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
Movie Writer
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2018
National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
Movie Writer
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2017
Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
Movie Himself
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2016
Alan Bennett's Diaries
Movie Himself
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2015
The Lady in the Van
Movie Alan Bennett (2014)
- 2013
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2013
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
Movie Mole (voice)
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2013
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie Hector
More credits
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2013
National Theatre Live: People
Movie Writer
- 2012
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2011
Books: The Last Chapter?
Movie Self
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2010
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
Movie Writer
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2009
Being Alan Bennett
Movie Himself
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2006
The History Boys
Movie Screenplay
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2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Movie Self
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2003
The Young Visiters
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2003
Meg and Mog
TV show Owl
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2003
The Importance of Being Morrissey
Movie Self
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2003
Thora Hird Tribute
Movie Self, Denis Midgley (archive footage, uncredited)
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2000
Telling Tales
TV show Writer
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1999
Family Guy
TV show Alan Bennett (voice)
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1998
Talking Heads 2
Movie Writer
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1998
Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
Movie (voice)
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1997
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV show Sillery
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1996
The Willows in Winter
Movie Mole
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1996
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse
Movie Timmy Willie (voice)
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1996
In Love and War
Movie Porter
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1995
The Abbey with Alan Bennett
TV show Self
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1995
The Wind in the Willows
Movie Mole (voice)
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1995
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Movie Self
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1994
The Madness of King George
Movie 2nd MP
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1994
Portrait or Bust
Movie Himself
