Whitemore, Hugh
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Name (Hebrew)
ויטמור, יו, 1936-
Name (Latin)
Whitemore, Hugh
Other forms of name
Whitmore, Hugh
וויטמור, יו, 1936-
Date of birth
1936-06-16
Date of death
2018-07-17
Place of birth
Tunbridge Wells (England)
Field of activity
English drama
Television authorship
Motion picture authorship
Occupation
Dramatists
Television writers
Screenwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Hugh John
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Stevie, c1977:t.p. (Hugh Whitemore)
- His Pack of lies, 1983:t.p. (Hugh Whitemore) p. 4 of cover (b. 1936; dramatist; screenwriter)
- Elizabeth R [VR] c1995:credits (Hugh Whitemore) container (Hugh Whitmore)
- Guardian WWW site, viewed July 25, 2018(Hugh Whitemore; Hugh John Whitemore, playwright and screenwriter, born 16 June 1936, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; died 17 July 2018; accomplished craftsman for theatre and TV for more than 50 years; there were film scripts for David Jones's 84 Charing Cross Road (1986) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre (1996))
- שקרים, 1991:
Wikipedia description:
Hugh John Whitemore (16 June 1936 – 17 July 2018) was an English playwright and screenwriter. His major stage plays included Breaking the Code (1986), about the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing, Pack of Lies (1983), based on a Cold War espionage case, and Stevie (1977), a portrait of the poet Stevie Smith, and The Best of Friends (1987), about the friendship Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, shared with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell. For television, he wrote The Gathering Storm (2002) and Concealed Enemies (1984), and My House in Umbria (2003), an adaptation of the William Trevor novella starring Maggie Smith, the first two of which won him an Emmy Award.
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