Alan Bennett
Birthday: 1934-05-09 | Place of Birth: Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UKAlan 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as Hector
as Mole (voice)
as Self
as Owl
as (voice)
as Mole
as Porter
as Mole
as Self
as Lord Pinkrose
as Denis Midgley
as Himself - Various Roles
as Justice Shallow
as Mr Petty
as Self
as Mouse
as Eryximachus
as Various Characters
