John James Osborne Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John James Osborne (12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre.In a productive life of more than 40 years, Osborne explored many themes and genres, writing for stage, film and TV. His personal life was extravagant and iconoclastic. He was notorious for the ornate violence of his language, not only on behalf of the political causes he supported but also against his own family, including his wives and children.Osborne was one of the first writers to address Britain's purpose in the post-imperial age. He was the first to question the point of the monarchy on a prominent public stage. During his peak (1956–1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit.
Credited with creating the "angry young man" prototype in theatre and later, cinema.
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I never had lunch in Brighton without wanting to take a woman to bed in the afternoon.
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To be tentative was beyond me. It usually is.
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'May 8th is the one unforgettable feast in my calendar. My father, Thomas Godfrey Osborne, was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on May 8th. . . .The Second World War ended on 8 May 1945, a date which now passes as unremembered as 4 August 1914. On 8 May 1956, my first play to be produced in London, Look Back in Anger, had its opening at the Royal Court Theatre.'
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I have been upbraided constantly for a crude, almost animal inability to dissemble.
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It's deep honesty which distinguishes a gentleman. He knows how to revel in life and have no expectations - and fear death at all times
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I want people to see life through my mirror, to feel my image. If it gets as far as that, if they feel, then I've made my contribution. What they do with those feelings afterwards is somebody else's business. Politicians. Journalists. Those sort of people.
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we need a new feeling as much as we need a new language. . . . Out of the feeling will come the language
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I do not like the kind of society in which I find myself. I like it less and less. I love the theatre more and more because I know that it is what I always dreamed it might be: a weapon. I am sure that it can be one of the decisive weapons of our time.
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Some actors are little better than strolling psychopaths.
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Despite the great success of his early plays, Osborne was in debt to the tune of some £300,000 at the time of his death.
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Upon his death, his remains were interred at St. George Churchyard in Clun, Shropshire, England.
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Awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain.
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