John Osborne

Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Also Known As

John James Osborne

Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

December 12, 1929

Died

December 24, 1994

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

The Power of One (1992)

Guard, School Gate

Forgotten Heroes (1991)

Flash Gordon (1980)

Tomorrow Never Comes (1978)

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Look Back In Anger (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Fourteen Pounds Of Jelly Babies

Look Back In Anger (1959)-- (Movie Clip) Give Her A Pink Gin

Family & Companions

Pamela Elizabeth Lane

Wife

Actor. Married 1951; divorced 1957.

Mary Ure

Wife

Actor. Second wife; married November 8, 1957; divorced 1963.

Penelope Gilliatt

Wife

Drama and film critic, novelist, screenwriter. Third wife; married May 24, 1963; divorced 1967.

Jill Bennett

Wife

Actor. Married April 1968; divored c. 1977; committed suicide in 1990.

Biography

Filmography

Life Events

Videos

Look Back In Anger (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Fourteen Pounds Of Jelly Babies Jimmy (Richard Burton) with partner Cliff (Gary Raymond) sets up his candy-stand and encounters the irritating constable Hurst (Donald Pleasence) in Tony Richardson's Look Back In Anger, 1959.

Look Back In Anger (1959)-- (Movie Clip) Give Her A Pink Gin Wife Alison (Mary Ure) walks into a buzz saw, arriving in the pub where Jimmy (Richard Burton) is schmoozing his benefactor Mrs. Tanner (Edith Evans) in Tony Richardson's Look Back In Anger, 1959.

Look Back In Anger (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Her Landlord! Jimmy (Richard Burton) and Cliff (Gary Raymond) invade the rehearsal where Alison (Mary Ure) is trying to support Helena (Claire Bloom) in Tony Richardson's production of John Osborne's play Look Back In Anger, 1959.

Look Back In Anger (1959) -- (Movie Clip) She Just Devours Me Whole! Having just made peace, Jimmy (Richard Burton) and wife Alison (Mary Ure) get playful until he learns she's invited guest Helena (Claire Bloom), in Tony Richardson's Look Back In Anger, 1959.

Look Back In Anger (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Jimmy A London jazz club is the setting, Jimmy (Richard Burton) wailing on his trumpet, in the opening of Tony Richardson's Look Back In Anger, 1959, co-starring Mary Ure and Claire Bloom, from John Osborne's play.

Tom Jones (1963) -- (Movie Clip) There's LIttle Hope Quickening events as Tom (Albert Finney) learns from Blifil (David Warner) of the accident, and both attend the deathbed of Squire Allworthy (George Devine), who fails to die in Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, 1963.

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Up The Flag, Mick! Within an early flashback Joan Plowright as art teacher Jean recalls seeing off her brother (Albert Finney as Mick), with her fiancè Graham (Daniel Massey), his unit having been called up from London for the Suez Crisis, in director Tony Richardson’s The Entertainer, 1960, starring Laurence Olivier.

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Nuns, Clergymen And Dogs! Sister Jean (Joan Plowright) and stepmother Phoebe (Brenda De Banzie) worrying over paratrooper brother Mick, grandfather Billy (Roger Livesey) harrumphing, when actor father Archie (Laurence Olivier) arrives, early in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, 1960.

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Talent Got A Bit Thin Joan Plowright as Jean visiting from London, Alan Bates her brother Frank catching up on the Morecambe, Lancashire promenade, discussing their song & dance man father (Laurence Olivier), then visiting the (still standing) Winter Gardens theater, Tony Richardson directing from the John Osborne play, in The Entertainer, 1960.

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Miss Great Britain Hefty set piece from director Tony Richardson, Archie (Laurence Olivier) the M-C at a seaside beauty contest, his sister Jean (Joan Plowright), father (Roger Livesey) and stepmother (Brenda De Banzie) spectating, in The Entertainer, 1960.

Entertainer, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Fool On location at Morecambe in north Lancashire, worried Jean (Joan Plowright) with her retired actor grandfather Billy (Roger Livesey), turning to her father, his son, Archie (Laurence Olivier), his first appearance, also Alan Bates as her brother, in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, 1960.

Tom Jones (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Our Hero The wacky opening to Tony Richardson's Tom Jones 1963, in which Squire Allworthy (George Devine) arrives home and subtitles begin the scandalous story.

Family

Thomas Godfrey Osborne

Father

Commercial artist.

Nellie Beatrice Osborne

Mother

Barmaid.

Nolan Kate Osborne

Daughter

Mother Penelope Gilliatt.

Companions

Pamela Elizabeth Lane

Wife

Actor. Married 1951; divorced 1957.

Mary Ure

Wife

Actor. Second wife; married November 8, 1957; divorced 1963.

Penelope Gilliatt

Wife

Drama and film critic, novelist, screenwriter. Third wife; married May 24, 1963; divorced 1967.

Jill Bennett

Wife

Actor. Married April 1968; divored c. 1977; committed suicide in 1990.

Helen Dawson

Wife

Married 1978 until his death.

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