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Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
Apr 28, 2022 · With the centenary of his birth, screenwriter Nigel Kneale is being celebrated for his varied work – including his landmark dramas about an alien-infested UK, writes Adam Scovell.
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Nigel Kneale was born on 18 April 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for The Entertainer (1960), Look Back in Anger (1959) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He was married to Judith Kerr. He died on 29 October 2006 in London, England, UK.
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Mar 4, 1996 · Remembering Nigel Kneale (radio documentary) April 17, 2022. Toby Hadoke considers the legacy of Quatermass writer Nigel Kneale, whose trademark fusion of science fiction and folk horror famously transfixed the nation at the dawn of TV drama and continues to influence it to this day.
May 5, 2020 · The Year of the Sex Olympics, written by Nigel Kneale, is out now on BFI DVD. Writing extensively for both film and TV, Nigel Kneale is one of the most important and radical British screenwriters of the last century. His work has haunted several generations of British viewers.
Jul 18, 2023 · Written by Nigel Kneale – one of the BBC’s first two staff writers – it follows Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group after a launch goes awry, the rocket veering off course and crash-landing with just one of three crew members on board.
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Nigel Kneale was one of Britain’s most significant screenwriters of the twentieth century. Credited by Mark Gatiss as “the inventor of modern television”, Kneale’s works included the Quatermass serials, The Year of the Olympics, The Stone Tape, Beasts and essential television adaptations of The Woman in Black and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
