Master of comedy novelist Pelham (Plum) Grenville Wodehouse was born on October 15, 1881, in Guilford, Surrey, England. He died in hospital in Southampton, New York, on Valentine's day (February 14) 1975, from a heart attack after a long illness at age 93. In that time he managed to write close to 200 novels, short stories, plays, song lyrics and ...
February 14, 1975, Southampton, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Profession
Writer, Soundtrack, Actor
Education
Dulwich College
Spouse
Ethel Wayman
Children
Leonora Wodehouse
Parents
Henry Ernest Wodehouse, Eleanor Wodehouse
Siblings
Richard Wodehouse, Armine Wodehouse, Peveril Wodehouse
Awards
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical
Nominations
Mastercard Best New Musical
Movies
Den ofrivillige golfaren, The Girl on the Boat, Anything Goes, Her Cardboard Lover, Piccadilly Jim, The Man in Possession, Sally, A Gentleman of Leisure, Thank You, Jeeves!, The Golden Butterfly
TV Shows
Wodehouse Playhouse, Ukridge
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
1
I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
2
Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, and indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy with the bacon.
3
Whatever may be said of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
4
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
5
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
6
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when'.
7
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed the short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
8
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
9
Jerry [Kern] generally does the music first and I put words to it. If I write a lyric without having to fit it to a tune, I always make it too much like a set of light verse, much too regular in meter. I think you get the best results by giving the composer his head and having the lyricist follow him.
10
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints that a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
11
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
12
All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him.
13
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes books.
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Fact
1
He was a keen admirer of Dick Van Dyke, whose sitcom of the early 60s he described as "easily the finest thing on TV".
Stepfather of Leonora. She died while undergoing surgery in the 1942.
4
P. G. Wodehouse became an American citizenship in 1955. He was awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year's Honours List for his services to literature, where he became Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
5
Wrote lyrics for song "Bill" (music by Jerome Kern) used in musical, "Showboat".
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blandings
TV Series novel - 5 episodes, 2013 characters - 4 episodes, 2014
P.G. Wodehouse's the Test Case
2014
Short original story
Piccadilly Jim
2005
book
By Jeeves
2001
TV Movie characters / short stories
Masterpiece Classic
1996
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Heavy Weather
1995
TV Movie novel
Jeeves and Wooster
TV Series based on the stories of - 21 episodes, 1990 - 1993 based on the stories by - 2 episodes, 1990 - 1992
Great Performances
1988
TV Series story - 1 episode
Wodehouse Playhouse
TV Series story - 21 episodes, 1974 - 1978 play - 1 episode, 1975
Diener und andere Herren
1978
TV Movie
A váratlan utazás
1977
TV Movie novel
Au théâtre ce soir
1975
TV Series story - 1 episode
Forduljon Psmithhez
1975
TV Movie novel
Comedy Playhouse
TV Series 1 episode, 1974 story - 1 episode, 1967
Ukridge
1968
TV Series stories - 7 episodes
The World of Wooster
1966-1967
TV Series novels - 3 episodes
Blandings Castle
1967
TV Series creator - 6 episodes
Blut floss auf Blendings Castle
1967
TV Movie novel
The Girl on the Boat
1962
novel
Anything Goes
1962
TV Movie
General Electric Theater
1961
TV Series story - 1 episode
Goeie morgen, Bill
1961
TV Movie
Startime
1960
TV Series 1 episode
ITV Play of the Week
1957
TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Anything Goes
1956
play
Lord Emsworth and the Little Friend
1956
TV Movie original story
Four Star Playhouse
1955
TV Series story - 1 episode
Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey
1954
TV Short short story
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1954
TV Series from the book by - 1 episode
Ponds Theater
1953
TV Series story - 1 episode
Hollywood Opening Night
1953
TV Series story - 1 episode
Encounter
1953
TV Series story - 1 episode
Musical Comedy Time
1950
TV Series play - 1 episode
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse
1950
TV Series story - 1 episode
Tonight on Broadway
1948
TV Series adaptation - 1 episode
Gomorron Bill!
1945
novel
Her Cardboard Lover
1942
play adaptation: English
Good Morning, Bill
1939
TV Movie
Blixt och dunder
1938
novel "Summer Lightning"
A Damsel in Distress
1937
from the story by / play - uncredited / screen play
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937
based on the character Jeeves created by
Thank You, Jeeves!
1936
based on a story by
Piccadilly Jim
1936
novel
Anything Goes
1936
play
Dizzy Dames
1935
story "The Watch Dog"
Summer Lightning
1933
novel
Leave It to Me
1933
play "Leave It To Psmith"
Brother Alfred
1932
play
The Man in Possession
1931
additional dialogue
Those Three French Girls
1930
dialogue
Sally
1929
play - uncredited
Her Cardboard Lover
1929
Short play adaptation: English
Oh Kay!
1928
titles - play
The Small Bachelor
1927
novel
The Golden Butterfly
1926
novel
Chester Forgets Himself
1924
Short story
Ordeal by Golf
1924
Short story
Rodney Fails to Qualify
1924
Short story
The Clicking of Cuthbert
1924
Short story
The Long Hole
1924
Short story
The Magic Plus Fours
1924
Short
A Gentleman of Leisure
1923
play
Their Mutual Child
1921
novel
Oh, Lady, Lady
1920
play
Stick Around
1920
Short story
The Prince and Betty
1919
novel
Making Up with Mother
1919
Short story
Piccadilly Jim
1919
novel
A Damsel in Distress
1919
novel
Oh Boy!
1919
book for stage musical "Oh Boy!"
Uneasy Money
1918
novel
Rule Sixty-Three
1915
Short story
A Gentleman of Leisure
1915
play
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Boardwalk Empire
2010
TV Series writer - 1 episode
La noche que no acaba
2010
Documentary writer: "Bill", "Can't Help Loving That Man"
$950,000
