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William John Francis Naughton (12 June 1910 – 9 January 1992) was an Irish-born British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.
Jun 8, 2024 · Bill Naughton was an Irish-born British playwright who is best remembered for a series of working-class comedies he wrote in the 1960s, most notably Alfie (1963; filmed 1966), an episodic, unsentimental tale of an egocentric Cockney womanizer.
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Alfie is a 1963 stage play written by Bill Naughton. Developed from a radio drama, the original London production starred John Neville, and the Broadway transfer starred Terence Stamp. The play recounts the life of a working-class London ladies man, Alfie Elkins, and the many women who pass through his life.
Jun 1, 2013 · With the "swinging Sixties" approaching, Naughton found himself belatedly capturing the national zeitgeist and chronicling the changing times, especially in relation to sex.
Bill Naughton was born on 12 June 1910 in Ballyhaunis, Ireland. He was a writer, known for Alfie (1966), The Family Way (1966) and Alfie (2004). He died on 9 January 1992 in Ballasalla, Isle of Man, UK.
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William John Francis Naughton (1910-1992) was a popular ‘working class’ author and playwright who was born in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland in June 1910 and died in early January 1992 in Ballasalla, Isle of Man.
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Sep 30, 2020 · Bill Naughton. 12 June 1910 - 9 January 1992. Bill Naughton was born in Ballyhaunis, Ireland. In 1914 his family moved to Bolton, Lancashire, England, where he attended Saint Peter and Paul's School. He worked as a weaver, coal-bagger and lorry-driver before he started writing.
