John Osborne
Born	12 December 1929(1929-12-12) Fulham, London, England
Died	24 December 1994 (aged 65) Clun, Shropshire, England
Occupation	Playwright, political activist
Nationality	English
Writing period	1950–1992
Genres	Social Realism, Kitchen Sink Drama
Literary movement	Angry Young Man
Notable work(s)	Look Back in Anger
Influences Max Miller
Influenced Theatre in the UK

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He came onto the theatrical scene at a time when British acting was enjoying a golden age, but most great plays came from the United States and France. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. British plays remained blind to the complexities of the postwar period. 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. TalkCommonewalth realm.--> The monarchy 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.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Look Back in Anger 3 The Entertainer and into the 1960s 4 1970s and later life 5 Complete works 6 Critical responses, idols and effect 7 Women 8 Death 9 Major sources 10 Footnotes

Early life

He was born in December 1929 in London, the son of Thomas Godfrey Osborne, a commercial artist and advertising copywriter of South Welsh extraction, and Nellie Beatrice, a Cockney barmaid. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Copywriting is the use of words to promote a Person, Business, Opinion, or Idea. South Wales (De Cymru is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south and Mid Wales and West Wales The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations He adored his father and hated his mother, whom he later wrote taught him "The fatality of hatred … She is my disease, an invitation to my sick room", and described her as "hypocritical, self-absorbed, calculating and indifferent". Thomas died in 1941, leaving the young boy an insurance settlement which he used to finance a private education at Belmont College, a minor public school in Devon. Devon is a large county in the South West of England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name He entered the school in 1943 but was expelled in the summer term of 1945 after whacking the headmaster, who had struck him for listening to a forbidden broadcast by Frank Sinatra. Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12 1915 &ndash May 14 1998 was an American singer and actor School certificate was the only formal qualification he acquired, but he possessed a native intelligence.

After school, Osborne went home to his mother in London and briefly tried trade journalism. Trade journalism reports on the movements and developments of the Business world by way of articles or analysis A job tutoring a touring company of junior actors introduced him to the theatre. He soon became involved as a stage manager and acting, joining Anthony Creighton's provincial touring company. Stage management is a sub-discipline of Stagecraft. Although a somewhat fluid line of work in essence the stage management team (which can consist of a production Anthony Creighton ( Swanage,1922 &ndash March 22 2005) is best known as the co-author of the play Epitaph for George Dillon with John Osborne Osborne tried his hand at writing plays, co-writing his first, The Devil Inside Him, with his mentor Stella Linden, who then directed it at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield in 1950. Huddersfield ( is a large Market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, 190 miles (306km north Around this time he also married Pamela Lane. His second play Personal Enemy was written with Anthony Creighton (with whom he also wrote Epitaph for George Dillon staged at the Royal Court in 1958) and staged in regional theatres before he submitted Look Back in Anger. Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton Regional theaters (also called resident theaters) in the United States are professional Theater companies that produce their own seasons Look Back in Anger (1956 is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter

Look Back in Anger

Written in seventeen days in a deckchair on Morecambe pier where he was performing in a creaky rep show called Seagulls over Sorrento, Look Back in Anger was largely autobiographical, based on his time living, and rowing, with Pamela Lane in cramped accommodation in Derby while she cuckolded him with a local dentist. Look Back in Anger (1956 is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter Derby (pronounced "dar-bee" /dˈɑːbɪ/ is a city in the East Midlands of England. A cuckold is a married man whose wife has sex with other men In current usage it sometimes refers to non-married couples in committed relationships as well although the traditional meaning It was submitted to agents all over London and returned with great rapidity. In his autobiography, Osborne writes: "The speed with which it had been returned was not surprising, but its aggressive dispatch did give me a kind of relief. It was like being grasped at the upper arm by a testy policeman and told to move on". Finally it was sent to the newly-formed English Stage Company at London's Royal Court Theatre. Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Court Theatre The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Formed by actor-manager and artistic director George Devine, the company's first three productions had been flops and it urgently needed a success if it were to survive. The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet George Alexander Cassady Devine CBE ( 20 November, 1910 - 20 January, 1966) was an extremely influential theatrical manager director Devine was prepared to gamble on this play because he saw in it a ferocious and scowling articulation of a new post-war spirit. Osborne was living on a leaky houseboat on the River Thames at the time with Creighton, stewing up nettles from the riverbank to eat. The Thames ( is a major River flowing through southern England. Nettle is the common name for between 30-45 species of Flowering plants of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae, with a cosmopolitan though So keen was Devine to contact Osborne that he rowed out to the boat to tell him he would like to make the play the fourth production to enter repertory. For other meanings of repertory please see Repertory (disambiguation. The play was directed by Tony Richardson and starred Kenneth Haigh, Mary Ure, and Alan Bates. Tony Richardson ( June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991) was an English theatre and Academy Award -winning film Kenneth Haigh (born March 25, 1931 in Mexborough, Yorkshire) is a British Actor. Eileen Mary Ure ( 18 February 1933 - 3 April 1975) was a Scottish actress of stage and film Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003 was a British Actor. It was George Fearon, a part-time press officer at the theatre, who invented the phrase angry young man. Angry Young Men is a journalistic catchphrase applied to a number of British Playwrights and Novelists from the mid-1950s Fearon told Osborne that he disliked the play and feared it would be impossible to market ^[1].

In 1993, a year before his death, Osborne wrote that the opening night was "an occasion I only partly remember, but certainly with more accuracy than those who subsequently claimed to have been present and, if they are to be believed, would have filled the theatre several times over". Reviews were mixed. Most of the critics who attended the first night felt it was a failure, and it looked as if the English Stage Company was going to go into liquidation. ^[2] The Evening Standard, for example, called the play "a failure" and "a self-pitying snivel". The London Evening Standard is an English Tabloid regional local newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast But the following Sunday, Kenneth Tynan of The Observer - the most influential critic of the age - praised it to the skies: 'I could not love anyone who did not wish to see Look Back in Anger,' he wrote, "It is the best young play of its decade". Kenneth Peacock Tynan ( 2 April 1927 - 26 July 1980) was an influential and often controversial British Theatre Critic The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word Harold Hobson of The Sunday Times called Osborne "a writer of outstanding promise". Sir Harold Hobson ( 4 August 1904 - 12 March 1992) was an influential English drama critic and author The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. During production, the married Osborne began a relationship with Mary Ure, and would divorce his wife, Pamela Lane, to marry her in 1957. Eileen Mary Ure ( 18 February 1933 - 3 April 1975) was a Scottish actress of stage and film The play went on to be an enormous commercial success, transferring to the West End and to Broadway, touring to Moscow and in 1958 a film version was released with Richard Burton and Mary Ure in the leading roles. The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions businesses headquarters and the commercial Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 &ndash 5 August 1984 was a Welsh multiple award-winning Actor. The play turned Osborne from a struggling playwright into a wealthy and famous angry young man and won him the Evening Standard Drama Award as the most promising playwright of the year. The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955 are presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre.

The Entertainer and into the 1960s

When he first saw Look Back in Anger, Laurence Olivier was dismissive, viewing the play as unpatriotic and bad theatre, "a travesty on England". Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron ^[3] At the time, Olivier was making a film of Rattigan's The Prince and the Showgirl co-starring Marilyn Monroe, and she was accompanied to London by her then-husband Arthur Miller. Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson, June 1 1926 &ndash August 5 1962 baptized Norma Arthur Asher Miller (October 17 1915 &ndash February 10 2005 was an American Playwright and Essayist. Olivier asked the American dramatist what plays he might want to see in London. Based on its title, Miller suggested Osborne's work; Olivier tried to dissuade him, but the playwright was insistent and the two of them saw it together.

Miller found the play revelatory, and they went backstage to meet Osborne. Olivier was impressed by the American's reaction, and asked John Osborne to write him a play; John Heilpern suggests the great actor's about-face was due to a midlife crisis, Olivier seeking a new challenge after decades of success in Shakespeare and other classics, and fearful of losing his pre-eminence to this new kind of theatre. George Devine, artistic director of the Royal Court, sent Olivier the incomplete script of The Entertainer (1957, filmed in 1959) and Olivier initially wanted to play Billy Rice, the lead character's decent elderly father. George Alexander Cassady Devine CBE ( 20 November, 1910 - 20 January, 1966) was an extremely influential theatrical manager director The Entertainer is a 1957 play by John Osborne, made into a Film in 1960, which told the story of a failing third-rate Music On seeing the finished script, he changed his mind and took the central role as failing music-hall performer Archie Rice, playing to great acclaim both at the Royal Court and then in the West End. ^[4]

The Entertainer uses the metaphor of the dying music hall tradition to comment on the moribund state of the British Empire, something flagrantly revealed during the Suez Crisis of November 1956 which elliptically forms the backdrop to the play. Music hall is a form of British theatrical Entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960 The British Empire was the largest empire in history and for over a century was the foremost global power. The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, (أزمة السويس - العدوان الثلاثي Crise du canal de Suez מבצע קדש Kadesh An experimental piece, The Entertainer was interspersed with vaudeville performances. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s Most critics praised the development of an exciting writing talent:

“

A real pro is a real man, all he needs is an old backcloth behind him and he can hold them on his own for half an hour. He's like the general run of people, only he's a lot more like them than they are themselves, if you understand me.

”

The words are Archie Rice's, though as with much of Osborne's work they could be said to represent his own sentiments, as with this quote from Look Back in Anger:

“

Oh, heavens, how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm—that's all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out 'Hallelujah! Hallelujah. I'm alive!'

”

Following The Entertainer were The World of Paul Slickey (1959) a musical which satirizes the tabloid press, the unusual television documentary play A Subject of Scandal and Concern (1960) and the 1962 double bill Plays for England, comprising "The Blood of the Bambergs" and "Under Plain Covers".

Luther, depicting the life of Martin Luther, the archetypal rebel of an earlier century, was first performed in 1961; it transferred to Broadway and won Osborne a Tony Award. Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne that explored the forces that were involved in the life of the famous reformer. Martin Luther (November 10 1483 February 18 1546 was a German Monk, theologian, university professor Father of Protestantism, and church reformer The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American Theatre and are presented Inadmissible Evidence was first performed in 1964. Inadmissible Evidence is a Tony-nominated play written by Britain's John Osborne in November 1964 In between these plays, Osborne won an Oscar for his 1963 adaptation of Tom Jones. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Tom Jones is a 1963 British Comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding 's classic novel The History of Tom Jones a Foundling A Patriot for Me (1965) was a tale of turn-of-the-century homosexuality and was instrumental in putting the boot in to the eighteenth-century system of theatrical censorship under the Lord Chamberlain. A Patriot For Me is a 1965 play by the English playwright John Osborne, based on the true story of Alfred Redl. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is one of the chief officers of the Royal Household in the United Kingdom, and is to be distinguished Both A Patriot For Me and The Hotel in Amsterdam^[5] won Evening Standard Best Play of the Year awards. The Evening Standard Theatre Awards, established in 1955 are presented annually for outstanding achievements in London Theatre.

1970s and later life

John Osborne's plays in the 1970s included A Sense of Detachment, first produced at the Royal Court in 1972, and Watch It Come Down, first produced at the National Theatre at the Old Vic starring Ralph Richardson. The Old Vic is a Theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Sir Ralph David Richardson ( 19 December 1902 &ndash 10 October 1983) was an English Actor, one of a group of theatrical

In 1971, Osborne turned in his most famous acting appearance, lending Cyril Kinnear a sense of civil menace in Get Carter. Get Carter is a 1971 crime Film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter a mobster who sets out to In 1978 he appeared as an actor in Tomorrow Never Comes and in 1980 in Flash Gordon. Tomorrow Never Comes is the Debut album by XINLISUPREME, released in 2002 Flash Gordon is the hero of a Science fiction adventure Comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, which was first published on January 7,

Through the 1980s Osborne played the role of Shropshire squire with great pleasure and a heavy dose of irony. Shropshire (ˈʃrɒpʃɪə/ /-ʃə alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated in print only Shrops, is a county in the He wrote a diary for The Spectator. For other uses see Spectator. The Spectator is a weekly British Magazine first published on 6 July He opened his garden to raise money for the church roof, from which he threatened to withdraw covenant-funding unless the vicar restored the Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and used throughout the Anglican Communion. (He had returned to the Church of England about 1974. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican )

In the last decade of his life, he published two volumes of autobiography, A Better Class of Person (1981) and Almost a Gentleman (1991). An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" A Better Class of Person was filmed by Thames TV in 1985 and was nominated for the Prix Italia with Eileen Atkins and Alan Howard as his parents and Gary Capelin and Neil McPherson as Osborne. A Better Class of Person (1981 is an autobiography written by Dramatist John Osborne and published in 1981 Thames Television was a licencee of the British ITV television network covering London and parts of the surrounding counties The Prix Italia is a national Italian television film and broadcasting Award. Dame Eileen June Atkins DBE (born 16 June 1934 is an English Writer and BAFTA and Emmy Award -winning Film, Television Alan MacKenzie Howard, CBE, (born 5 August 1937 is an English Actor known for his roles on stage television and film Neil McPherson (born London, October 7 1969) is a Theatre producer and Artistic director.

He also collected various newspaper and magazine writings together in 1994 under the title Damn You, England. At his memorial service in 1995, playwright David Hare said:

“

It is, if you like, the final irony that John's governing love was for a country which is, to say the least, distrustful of those who seem to be both clever and passionate. David Hare can refer to David Hare (philanthropist (1775–1842 Scottish philanthropist David Hare (artist (1917–1992 U There is in English public life an implicit assumption that the head and the heart are in some sort of opposition. If someone is clever, they get labelled cold. If they are emotional, they get labelled stupid. Nothing bewilders the English more than someone who exhibits great feeling and great intelligence. When, as in John's case, a person is abundant in both, the English response is to take in the washing and bolt the back door.

”

His last play was Déjà Vu (1991), a sequel to Look Back in Anger.

Complete works

Title	Medium	1st perf	Notes
The Devil Inside	Theatre	1950	with Stella Linden
The Great Bear	Theatre	1951	blank verse, never produced
Personal Enemy	Theatre	1955	with Anthony Creighton
Look Back in Anger	Theatre	1956
The Entertainer	Theatre	1957
Epitaph for George Dillon	Theatre	1958[6]	with Anthony Creighton
The World Of Paul Slickey	Theatre	1959	[7]
A Subject Of Scandal And Concern	TV	1960
Luther	Theatre	1961
Plays for England	Theatre	1962
The Blood of the Bambergs
Under Plain Cover
Tom Jones	Screenplay	1963
Inadmissible Evidence	Theatre	1964
A Patriot For Me	Theatre	1965
A Bond Honoured	Theatre	1966	One-act adaptation of Lope de Vega's La fianza satisfecha
The Hotel In Amsterdam	Theatre	1968
Time Present	Theatre	1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Screenplay[8]	1968
The Right Prospectus	TV	1970
West Of Suez	Theatre	1971
A Sense Of Detachment	Theatre	1972
The Gift Of Friendship	TV	1972
Hedda Gabler	Theatre	1972	Ibsen adaptation
A Place Calling Itself Rome	Theatre	(1973)	Coriolanus adaptation, unproduced
Ms, Or Jill And Jack	TV	1974
The End Of Me Old Cigar	Theatre	1975
The Picture Of Dorian Gray	Theatre	1975	Wilde adaptation
Almost A Vision	TV	1976
Watch It Come Down	Theatre	1976
Try A Little Tenderness	Theatre	(1978)	unproduced
Very Like A Whale	TV	1980
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy	TV	1980
A Better Class of Person	Book	1981	autobiography volume I
A Better Class of Person [9]	TV	1985
God Rot Tunbridge Wells	TV	1985
The Father	Theatre	1989	Strindberg adaptation
Almost a Gentleman	Book	1991	autobiography volume II
Déjàvu	Theatre	1992

Critical responses, idols and effect

Osborne was a great fan of Max Miller and saw parallels between them. The Great Bear is a 1951 play never produced by British Playwright John Osborne. Anthony Creighton ( Swanage,1922 &ndash March 22 2005) is best known as the co-author of the play Epitaph for George Dillon with John Osborne Look Back in Anger (1956 is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter The Entertainer is a 1957 play by John Osborne, made into a Film in 1960, which told the story of a failing third-rate Music Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton Anthony Creighton ( Swanage,1922 &ndash March 22 2005) is best known as the co-author of the play Epitaph for George Dillon with John Osborne Luther is a 1961 play by John Osborne that explored the forces that were involved in the life of the famous reformer. Tom Jones is a 1963 British Comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding 's classic novel The History of Tom Jones a Foundling The Charge of the Light Brigade is a British War film made in 1968 by Woodfall Film Productions and distributed by United Artists Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian Playwright Henrik Ibsen. Coriolanus is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Gaius Martius Coriolanus. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published Novel written by Oscar Wilde, first appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Try A Little Tenderness is a 1978 play never produced by British Playwright John Osborne. A Better Class of Person (1981 is an autobiography written by Dramatist John Osborne and published in 1981 The Father is a 1989 play by British Playwright John Osborne. Max Miller ( November 21[[ 894]] – May 7[[ 963]] the "Cheeky Chappie" was a 1930s English Music hall Comedian famous 'I love him, (Max Miller) because he embodied a kind of theatre I admire most. 'Mary from the Dairy' was an overture to the danger that (Max) might go too far. Whenever anyone tells me that a scene or a line in a play of mine goes too far in some way then I know my instinct has been functioning as it should. When such people tell you that a particular passage makes the audience uneasy or restless, then they seem (to me) as cautious and absurd as landladies and girls-who-won't. '

Osborne's work transformed British theatre. He helped to make it artistically respected again, throwing off the formal constraints of the former generation, and turning our attention once more to language, theatrical rhetoric, and emotional intensity. He saw theatre as a weapon with which ordinary people could break down the class barriers and that he had a 'beholden duty to kick against the pricks'. He wanted his plays to be a reminder of real pleasures and real pains. David Hare said in his memorial address:

“

John Osborne devoted his life to trying to forge some sort of connection between the acuteness of his mind and the extraordinary power of his heart.

”

Osborne did change the world of theatre, influencing playwrights such as Edward Albee and Mike Leigh. Edward Franklin Albee III ( "AWL-bee" born March 12 1928 is a three time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright known for works including Mike Leigh, OBE (born February 20, 1943) is an English film and theatre director screenwriter and playwright However, work of his authenticity and originality would remain the exception rather than the rule. This did not surprise Osborne; nobody understood the tackiness of the theatre better than the man who had played Hamlet on Hayling Island. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Writer's Guild of Great Britain. An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize Excellence in a certain field a certificate of excellence See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands

Osborne joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1959. However, like Philip Larkin, he drifted to the libertarian, unorganized right, considering himself "a radical who hates change". Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 was an English Poet, Novelist and Jazz

Women

Osborne remained angry until the end of his life. Many women seem to have found his anger attractive - he had more than his fair share of lovers in addition to wives, and he was not kind to them. Plenty of evidence showed that, in relationships, he was an out-and-out cad. In his own autobiography he details some of the brazen subterfuges he created in order to commit adultery with Penelope Gilliatt before they were married^[10]. Penelope Gilliatt (née Penelope Ann Douglass Conner March 25 1932 &ndash May 9 1993) was an English Novelist, Short Jill Bennett's suicide is generally believed to have been a result of Osborne's rejection of her. See Jill Bennett (American actress for the American actress with the same name He said of Bennett: "She was the most evil woman I have come across", and showed open contempt for her suicide. ^[11]

In his 2006 biography,^[12] John Heilpern describes at length a vacation in Valbonne,^[13] France, in 1961, that Osborne shared with Tony Richardson, a distraught George Devine, and others. Valbonne is a commune near Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Tony Richardson ( June 5, 1928 – November 14, 1991) was an English theatre and Academy Award -winning film George Alexander Cassady Devine CBE ( 20 November, 1910 - 20 January, 1966) was an extremely influential theatrical manager director Feigning bafflement over the romantic entanglements of the time, Heilpern writes:

“

Let's see: Osborne is on a besieged holiday with his aggrieved mistress[14] while having a passionate affair with his future third wife[15] as the founding artistic director of the Royal Court has a nervous breakdown and his current wife[16] gives birth to a son that isn't his. [17]

”

Osborne's vexations with women extended to an extremely cruel relationship with his daughter Nolan, born from his marriage with Penelope Gilliatt. His vicious abuse of his teenaged daughter culminated with him casting her out of his house when she was aged seventeen. They never spoke again. ^[18] Only his last marriage was comparatively devoted and private, as his wife was intelligent but held no competing ambitions.

He was married five times; the first four ended in divorce, the last in his death:

• 1) Pamela Lane (1951-1957; inspired Alison Porter from Look Back in Anger)
• 2) Mary Ure (1957-1963)
• 3) Penelope Gilliatt (1963-1968)
• 4) Jill Bennett (1968-1977)
• 5) Helen Dawson (former arts journalist and critic for The Observer, 1978-1994)

Death

After a serious liver crisis in 1987, Osborne became a diabetic, injecting twice a day. Eileen Mary Ure ( 18 February 1933 - 3 April 1975) was a Scottish actress of stage and film Penelope Gilliatt (née Penelope Ann Douglass Conner March 25 1932 &ndash May 9 1993) was an English Novelist, Short See Jill Bennett (American actress for the American actress with the same name Diabetes mellitus (ˌdaɪəˈbiːtiːz or /ˌdaɪəˈbiːtəs/ /məˈlaɪtəs/ or /ˈmɛlətəs/ often referred to simply as diabetes ( Ancient Greek: grc He died from complications from his diabetes at the age of 65 at his home in Clunton, near Craven Arms, Shropshire. Clunton is a Village in Shropshire, England, to the east of the small town of Clun. Craven Arms is a small town and Civil parish in South Shropshire, England. He is buried in St George's churchyard, Clun, Shropshire alongside his last wife, the critic Helen Dawson, who died in 2004. Clun (klʌn is a small Town in South Shropshire, England. The town is located entirely in the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding

Major sources

Footnotes

Persondata
NAME	Osborne, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English playwright and social rebel
DATE OF BIRTH	12 December, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fulham, London
DATE OF DEATH	24 December, 1994
PLACE OF DEATH	Clun, Shropshire, England

Robert Archibald Shaw ( 9 August, 1927 &ndash 28 August, 1978) was an English stage and Film Actor

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