Simon James Holliday Gray Net Worth is $1.3 Million
Simon James Holliday Gray Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Simon James Holliday Gray, CBE (21 October 1936 – 7 August 2008) was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to 5 published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film, and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.
Many of his works are about the trials and tribulations of intellectuals
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Fact
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He made his first foray into playwriting when he learned that the BBC wanted to make one of his short stories into a radio play, and that they would pay the scriptwriter more than they paid him for the story. He volunteered to adapt the story himself.
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He taught at Queen Mary College, London for 25 years.
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Career: Supervisor in English 1960-1963 & Senior Instructor in English 1963-1964 at University of British Columbia; Lecturer in English 1965-1985 & Honorary Fellow 1985 at Queen Mary College, London.
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Author of the autobiographical "Smoking Diaries", third volume called "The Last Cigarette". He used to smoke up to 65 cigarettes a day.
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Was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as author of a Best Play nominee: in 1973 for "Butley" and in 1977 for "Otherwise Engaged."
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He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in the 2005 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Une heure de tranquillité
2014
play "Otherwise Engaged"
Screen Two
TV Series writer - 4 episodes, 1987 - 1993 play - 2 episodes, 1987 - 1992 adaptation - 1 episode, 1987
Unnatural Pursuits
1992
TV Series written by - 2 episodes
Screen One
1992
TV Series writer - 1 episode
A Month in the Country
1987
Theaterblut
1985
TV Movie
The Rear Column
1980
TV Movie
Niet te bereiken
1978
TV Movie
Piccadilly Circus
1977
TV Series 1 episode
Play for Today
1971-1975
TV Series writer - 3 episodes
Butley
1974
play / screenplay
ITV Playhouse
1970
TV Series screenplay - 1 episode
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
TV Series dramatisation - 1 episode
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV Series script - 1 episode, 1969 writer - 1 episode, 1969
$1.3 Million
