哈利波特劇集
H:小說紅了,轉成電影,電影暢映,前傳出現,前傳演完,電視劇集又出來。娱樂觀眾有用不完的創意。重播再重播。如今「冰與火之歌」演完,接著「龍族前傳」。魔戒三集演完,又轉為魔戒前傳。如今輪到哈利波特電視劇預定2026開始至少十年。回顧小說1997年6月26日第一集出版開始,-2007年7月21日。
電影20011114至前傳三202204。也算長壽。007小說1953年創作,系列電影《鐵金剛勇破神秘島》(1962年)至《007:生死交戰》(2021年)歷經68年。活不夠久的,是看不到小說的演變。活著總有驚奇。20240707W7
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HBO鐵定《哈利波特》劇集於2026年播出!誰是新一代哈利波特和妙麗?
《哈利波特》劇集系列將由原著小說作者J.K Rowling 擔任執行製作人,由於共有七季,預計播映時間將會長達十年,相當大陣仗,而卡司陣容將由全新班底擔演。
小說出版時間1997年6月26日-2007年7月21日
電影2001年11月14日上映。最後至2011年7月15日上映。
前傳第一部《怪獸與牠們的產地》於2016年11月上映,第二部《怪獸與葛林戴華德的罪行》於 2018 年 11 月上映,《怪獸與鄧不利多的秘密》則於2022年4月上映,皆由大衛‧葉慈執導。
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哈利·波特
J.K.羅琳著作的系列小說
此條目頁的主題是一部系列小說。關於其他同名條目,請見「哈利波特 (消歧義)」。
《哈利波特》(英語:Harry Potter),英國作家J·K·羅琳的奇幻文學系列小說,描寫主角哈利波特在霍格華茲魔法學校七年學習生活中的冒險故事。該系列在超過200國家出版,有80種語言版本,2018年總銷售量超過5億,成為世界上最暢銷小說。
故事概要
《哈利波特》系列的故事背景,建立於現代世界和魔法世界並存的世界觀,以魔法世界惡名昭彰的巫師佛地魔殺害哈利波特的父母詹姆·波特和 莉莉·波特、還是嬰兒的哈利波特倖免於難作為開端,講述哈利在成長過程中分別在現代世界與魔法世界經歷的事件。
《哈利波特:神秘的魔法石》:在系列首作中,故事起始點為1980年[9],成為孤兒的哈利被交給姨媽的家庭德思禮一家收養,過著被德思禮一家長期刻薄對待的生活,直至11歲生日當晚,他從霍格華茲學院鑰匙管理者魯霸·海格手中接到校長阿不思·鄧不利多發出的入學通知,才得知自己的巫師身世並入學霍格華茲。哈利在魔法世界認識形形色色的恩人、教師、朋友、對手、魔法生物,逐漸理解關於父母的往事和佛地魔有意利用魔法石長生不死的事實,與憑依在奎若教授身上的佛地魔對峙,最終魔奎若變成灰燼、佛地魔消失,魔法石則被摧毀,哈利所屬的葛來分多學院因為哈利和朋友們的表現獲得加分,成為學期末積分最多的學院盃冠軍。
《哈利波特:���失的密室》:哈利在升上二年級的暑假期間認識了服侍魯休思·馬份、為了保護哈利反而激怒德思禮一家的家事小精靈多比,哈利被德思禮一家限制行動時,獲得交好的衛斯理家族出手相救渡過愉快的暑假,好友榮恩·衛斯理的妹妹金妮·衛斯理成為該屆霍格華茲新生,學校則聘僱知名作家吉德羅·洛哈擔任新任黑魔法防禦術教授。由於校園出現「密室將再度開啟」的謎樣留言、接二連三發生校園人士遭石化的事件,連和哈利要好的妙麗·格蘭傑也被捲入危險,迫使哈利和榮恩深入調查此事,從而深入理解學校創辦人之一薩拉查·史萊哲林秉持純血統招生主義的過往、舊名湯姆·瑞斗的佛地魔以日記本操控金妮打開密室釋放蛇妖造成襲擊事件的真相,最終哈利因為鄧不利多飼養的鳳凰送來分類帽,從分類帽取出高錐客·葛來分多寶劍斬殺蛇妖,利用蛇妖的毒牙刺進作為佛地魔分靈體的日記本而令瑞斗的身影消失,金妮則恢復了生命。事後哈利幫助多比獲得自由,洛哈因為被哈利和榮恩揭發盜取他人經歷成書準備消除兩者記憶,反而誤用榮恩故障的魔杖令自己失去記憶住進聖蒙果醫院,葛來分多學院再度因為哈利和榮恩的表現蟬聯學院盃冠軍。
《哈利波特:阿茲卡班的逃犯》:哈利以天狼星·布萊克逃離阿茲卡班監獄、用魔法教訓羞辱父母的瑪姬姑姑並從德斯禮家離家出走、升上三年級認識新任黑魔法防禦術教授雷木思·路平、催狂魔現身在魁地奇比賽中為契機,深入理解天狼星、雷木思·路平和父母、佛地魔之間的關聯,揭曉彼得·佩迪魯當年出賣了哈利的父母而造成波特夫婦遇害、天狼星蒙冤入獄的實情,結果彼得·佩迪魯逃走、路平的狼人身分曝光被迫辭去教職、天狼星被判處接受催狂魔之吻,讓哈利為了解救天狼星展開行動。
《哈利波特:火盃的考驗》:故事以食死人在魁地奇世界盃尾聲現身襲擊麻瓜成為開端,學校起聘已經退休的正氣師瘋眼穆敵任職黑魔法防禦術教授,霍格華茲、波巴洞和德姆蘭三校參與久未舉辦的三巫鬥法大賽,升上四年級但未報名賽事的哈利意外地和同校但就讀赫夫帕夫學院的西追·迪哥里被選為參賽者。哈利和西追在經歷三項考驗的過程中成為戰友,他還對西追的女友張秋產生好感,然而哈利和西追被捲入了佛地魔和彼得·佩迪魯策畫的陰謀,導致西追遇害身亡、佛地魔得以復活。哈利帶著西追的遺體返回學校,瘋眼穆敵被揭露實為從阿茲卡班監獄逃獄的小巴堤·柯羅奇偽裝,真正的瘋眼穆敵則在受困後獲得釋放。由於小巴堤·柯羅奇未能向魔法部長康尼留斯·夫子及時透露事實便被催狂魔吸走靈魂、加著魔法世界記者抹黑哈利使夫子不願相信佛地魔復活,促使鄧不利多招集鳳凰會成員展開對抗佛地魔的行動。
《哈利波特:鳳凰會的密令》:哈利在升上五年級的暑假期間和表兄達利遭遇催狂魔的襲擊,為了防身違反不得在校外施展魔法的規則,被要求出席魔法部的聽證會。哈利與鳳凰會成員碰面,理解佛地魔的相關情報,在聽證會獲得身為爆竹的阿拉貝拉·費格出庭作證而無罪釋放,鄧不利多的支持者和鳳凰會亦為了對抗佛地魔展開行動。被魔法部派任黑魔法防禦術教授的桃樂絲·恩不里居在學校逐步掌握權勢的獨裁作風,引起校園師生的不滿,哈利和朋友們組成鄧不利多的軍隊(簡稱D.A)私下教導想要學習黑魔法防禦術的學生,妙麗聯繫記者麗塔·史譏令後者撰寫哈利的訪問描述佛地魔復活的真相,刊登在《謬論家》上,造成全魔法圈轟動。鄧不利多為袒護哈利和D.A遭恩不里居迫害下台,哈利和D.A.的成員前往魔法部拯救天狼星,偕同鳳凰會成員對抗食死人,天狼星在過程中遇害身亡,佛地魔親自出現在魔法部和鄧不利多展開決鬥後逃跑。此事讓魔法部真正相信佛地魔回歸的消息,鄧不利多則向哈利透露多年前有關終結佛地魔的男孩降生的預言,至於恩不理居則因為遭人馬擄走留有心理創傷、加著任職霍格華茲校長期間的負面事蹟被全校師生逐出校園。
《哈利波特:混血王子的背叛》:佛地魔在魔法部現身的事件過後,盧夫·昆爵接替康尼留斯·夫子成為新任魔法部長,鄧不利多和哈利說服史拉轟返校擔任擔任魔藥學教授,原先教導魔藥學、曾和哈利的父親有過節的賽佛勒斯·石內卜則成為繼任黑魔法防禦術教授。升上六年級的哈利從史拉轟取得「混血王子」記載魔藥學知識的筆記本,經由鄧不利多的引導理解佛地魔將靈魂分成7份、其中6份藏於分靈體的詳情,決意依照指示破壞佛地魔的分靈體。在食死人闖入學校和校園師生對戰的期間,和哈利長期對立、偕同食死人行動的跩哥·馬份解除鄧不利多的武裝,但無法痛下殺手,最終由石內卜使用索命咒殺害鄧不利多,石內卜坦承自己是「混血王子」的身分便先行離去。事後時任副校長麥教授成為霍格華茲臨時校長,哈利則決定不返校學習課業,偕同妙麗、榮恩執行摧毀佛地魔的所有分靈體的使命。
《哈利波特:死神的聖物》:佛地魔獲得了魔法部的控制權,鳳凰會成員也為此展開了對策。哈利、榮恩和妙麗,取得鄧不利多生前的遺物。三者潛入魔法部盜走分靈體之一的史萊哲林掛墜盒,造訪高錐客洞期間遭到佛地魔的蛇納吉尼的攻擊,經由銀色母鹿的護法引導找到葛萊分多的寶劍,用它摧毀了史萊哲林掛墜盒,他們還從古靈閣偷走了分靈體之一的赫夫帕夫金杯並前往霍格華茨,理解死神聖物的淵源,破壞赫夫帕夫金杯,同為分靈體之一的雷文克勞皇冠則在哈利三者和馬份、高爾、贊比尼對峙時,毀於高爾在萬應室用惡魔之火引發的火災。留守在霍格華茨的聯合陣營與食死人展開了大戰,佛地魔指示娜吉妮殺死石內卜,但在石內卜死前將自己的記憶傳給哈利,讓哈利理解石內卜始終忠於鄧不利多、哈利本身即是分靈體之一的事實。哈利在對抗佛地魔的過程一度被後者殺死,靈魂與鄧不利多相會後,選擇重返現實繼續迎戰佛地魔,最終這場大戰以哈利殺死佛地魔、聯合陣營付出犧牲五十多名人力的代價獲勝告終。題為「十九年後」的尾聲描述了倖存者的生活和佛地魔之死帶來的影響。
電影
參見:哈利波特系列電影
第一集內描述的九又四分之三月台的現實版,攝於倫敦國王十字車站
1999年,羅琳以100萬英鎊將《哈利波特》系列的電影版權賣給了華納兄弟。[16][17]羅琳擁有系列電影的創意控制權,並與大衛·海曼和大衛·巴倫一起擔任《哈利波特:死神的聖物1》、《哈利波特:死神的聖物2》的製片人。[18]羅琳嚴格要求製作團隊選擇英國和愛爾蘭演員,但是特定角色可以是法國和東歐演員。[19]
克里斯·哥倫布成為了《哈利波特:神秘的魔法石》的導演。[20]《神秘的魔法石》於2001年11月14日上映。
同樣由哥倫布執導的《哈利波特:消失的密室》於2002年11月15日上映。哥倫布僅擔任《哈利波特:阿茲卡班的逃犯》的製片人,墨西哥導演艾方索·柯朗接手執導,2003年電影拍攝完成後於2004年6月4日上映。
第四部《哈利波特:火盃的考驗》在第三部上映之前就開始製作,由系列首位英國導演麥克·紐維爾執導,2005年11月18日上映。
電視導演大衛·葉慈執導《哈利波特:鳳凰會的密令》,電影於2006年1月開始製作,次年7月上映。
葉慈也執導了於2009年7月15日上映的《哈利波特:混血王子的背叛》[25],以及最後一部《哈利波特:死神的聖物》。最後一部的改編電影分為兩集:《哈利波特:死神的聖物1》於2010年11月19日上映,《哈利波特:死神的聖物2》則於2011年7月15日上映。
前傳電影
怪獸系列電影
參見:怪獸系列電影
前傳《怪獸》系列電影預計有五部電影。[28]第一部《怪獸與牠們的產地》於2016年11月上映,第二部《怪獸與葛林戴華德的罪行》於 2018 年 11 月上映,《怪獸與鄧不利多的秘密》則於2022年4月上映,皆由大衛‧葉慈執導。[29][30]
佛地魔系列電影
參見:《佛地魔系列電影》
前傳《佛地魔系列》目前有一部電影,第一部《佛地魔:傳人的起源》於2018年1月13日上傳至YouTube,供人免費觀看[31],《佛地魔:傳人的起源》是粉絲製作。
詹姆斯·邦德系列電影
詹姆士·龐德是小說家伊恩·佛萊明1953年創作的虛構角色,為英國秘密情報局特工,代碼007。至今,他已在27部電影中由多位男演員扮演,順序分別是史恩·康納萊、大衛·尼文、喬治·拉贊貝、羅傑·摩爾、提摩西·達頓、皮爾斯·布洛斯南和丹尼爾·克雷格。 維基百科
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阿倫·班尼特
H:20240526下午15:45至17:00在amc電影台看「班尼特日誌」,介紹阿倫·班尼特一年的生活。班尼特是誰?查查。20240526W7
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阿倫·班尼特
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電影
年齡
90 歲
1934年5月9日
阿倫·班尼特是一位英國劇作家、編劇、演員和作家。他出生在利茲,在牛津大學學習歷史,並在牛津滑稽劇團演出。後來,貝內特在大學任教,同時研究中世紀歷史。他與杜德利·穆爾、喬納森·米勒和彼得·庫克在1960年愛丁堡電影節諷刺電影作品中的合作使他瞬間成名。此後他放棄學業,轉而從事全職寫作。
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出生資訊: 1934 年 5 月 9 日(90歲),英國里兹Armley
電影: 意外心房客、 歷史系男生、 瘋狂喬治王、 Allelujah、 An Englishman Abroad、 A Bed Among the Lentils, …
電視節目: Talking Heads、 The Abbey、 The Wind in the Willows、 Alice in Wonderland、 On the Margin, …
伴侶: 魯伯特·湯瑪斯
父母: 沃爾特·班尼特、 莉莉恩·瑪莉·皮爾
艾倫·貝內特(英語:Alan Bennett,1934年5月9日—)是一位英國劇作家、編劇、演員和作家。他出生在利茲,在牛津大學學習歷史,並在牛津滑稽劇團演出。後來,貝內特在大學任教,同時研究中世紀歷史。他與杜德利·穆爾、喬納森·米勒和彼得·庫克在1960年愛丁堡電影節諷刺電影作品中的合作使他瞬間成名。此後他放棄學業,轉而從事全職寫作。他的第一部戲劇在《四十年來》在1968年上映。
貝內特的作品包括《瘋狂的喬治三世》及其電影改編、《頭部特寫》獨白系列、《歷史系男生》及其電影改編,以及流行的音頻有聲書籍,包括《愛麗絲漫遊奇境記》和《小熊維尼》。
早年生活
貝內特出生在利茲的阿姆利[1]。他的父親沃爾特是一名合作社屠夫,母親名叫莉莉安·瑪麗。他是家中的最小的兒子。貝內特上過基督教堂、阿姆利和英格蘭教會學校(和泰勒·布拉德福德同班),然後是利茲現代學校(現在是勞恩斯伍德學校)。
在申請牛津大學獎學金之前,他在語言學院聯合語言學院學習俄語。後來,他被牛津大學埃克塞特學院錄取,畢業後獲得了一流的歷史學位。在牛津的時候,他在《復仇女神》中與許多最終成功的演員一起表演喜劇。畢業後他在大學裡留教了幾年,研究和教授中世紀的歷史,後來才認爲自己不適合當一名學者。
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Alan Bennett
English playwright and actor (born 1934)
For other people named Alan Bennett, see Alan Bennett (disambiguation).
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter. Over his entertainment career he has received numerous awards and honours including two BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. He also earned an Academy Award nomination for his film The Madness of King George (1994). In 2005 he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award.
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Bennett was born in Leeds and attended Oxford University, where he studied history and performed with the Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame and later a Special Tony Award. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play, Forty Years On, being produced in 1968. He also became known for writing dramatic monologues Talking Heads which ran in 1988, and 1999 on BBC1 earning a British Academy Television Award.
Bennett gained acclaim with his various plays at the Royal National Theatre. He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy Play for Single Spies in 1990. Next, he made his breakthrough with the play The Madness of George III in 1992. For this play, he received a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. The following year he staged a theatrical production of the BBC series Talking Heads in 1992. He continued receiving acclaim for his plays The Lady in the Van in 1999, The History Boys in 2004, and The Habit of Art in 2009. He won his second Tony Award for Best Play for The History Boys in 2005. The following plays were later adapted into films, The Madness of King George (1994), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, The History Boys (2005), and The Lady in the Van (2015).
Bennett is also known for a wide variety of audio books, including his readings of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Early life
Bennett was born on 9 May 1934 in Armley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The younger son of a Co-op butcher, Walter, and his wife, Lilian Mary (née Peel), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School (in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford), and then Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School). He has an older brother, Gordon, who is three years his senior.
Bennett learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his national service before applying for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in history. While at Oxford he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in the Oxford Revue. He remained at the university for several years, where he served as a junior lecturer of Medieval History at Magdalen College, before deciding, in 1960, that he was not suited to being an academic.
Career
Bennett (second left) in Beyond the Fringe on Broadway c. 1962
Early career
In August 1960, Bennett – along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook – gained fame after an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, with the show continuing in London and New York. He also appeared in My Father Knew Lloyd George. His television comedy sketch series On the Margin (1966) was erased; the BBC re-used expensive videotape rather than keep it in the archives. However, in 2014 it was announced that audio copies of the entire series had been found.
Bennett's first stage play Forty Years On, directed by Patrick Garland, was produced in 1968. Many television, stage and radio plays followed, with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose, and broadcasting and many appearances as an actor.
Despite a long history with both the National Theatre and the BBC, Bennett never writes on commission, saying "I don't work on commission, I just do it on spec. If people don't want it then it's too bad."
Bennett's many works for television include his first play for the medium, A Day Out in 1972, A Little Outing in 1977, Intensive Care in 1982, An Englishman Abroad in 1983, and A Question of Attribution in 1991. But perhaps his most famous screen work is the 1988 Talking Heads series of monologues for television which were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. A second set of six Talking Heads followed a decade later.
1980s
Bennett wrote the play Enjoy in 1980. It barely scraped a run of seven weeks at the Vaudeville Theatre, in spite of the stellar cast of Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Susan Littler, Philip Sayer, Liz Smith (who replaced Joan Hickson during rehearsals) and, in his first West End role, Marc Sinden. It was directed by Ronald Eyre. A new production of Enjoy attracted very favourable notices during its 2008 UK tour and moved to the West End of London in January 2009. The West End show took over £1 million in advance ticket sales and even extended the run to cope with demand. The production starred Alison Steadman, David Troughton, Richard Glaves, Carol Macready and Josie Walker.
1990s
Bennett wrote The Lady in the Van based on his experiences with an eccentric woman called Miss Shepherd, who lived on Bennett's driveway in a series of dilapidated vans for more than fifteen years. It was first published in 1989 as an essay in the London Review of Books. In 1990 he published it in book form. In 1999 he adapted it into a stage play, which starred Maggie Smith and was directed by Nicholas Hytner. The stage play includes two characters named Alan Bennett. On 21 February 2009 it was broadcast as a radio play on BBC Radio 4, with Maggie Smith reprising her role and Alan Bennett playing himself. He adapted the story again for a 2015 film, with Maggie Smith reprising her role again, and Nicholas Hytner directing again. In the film Alex Jennings plays the two versions of Bennett, although Alan Bennett appears in a cameo at the very end of the film.
Bennett adapted his 1991 play The Madness of George III for the cinema. Entitled The Madness of King George (1994), the film received four Academy Award nominations: for Bennett's writing and the performances of Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren. It won the award for best art direction.
In 1995 he wrote and hosted the three-part BBC documentary series The Abbey, directed by Jonathan Stedall. The programme provides a personal tribute to, and tour of, Westminster Abbey.
21st century
A 2007 production of Bennett's The History Boys at The Doon School, India.
Bennett's critically acclaimed The History Boys won three Laurence Olivier Awards in 2005, for Best New Play, Best Actor (Richard Griffiths), and Best Direction (Nicholas Hytner), having previously won Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor and Best Play. Bennett also received the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre. The History Boys won six Tony Awards on Broadway, including best play, best performance by a leading actor in a play (Richard Griffiths), best performance by a featured actress in a play (Frances de la Tour) and best direction of a play (Nicholas Hytner). A film version of The History Boys was released in the UK in October 2006. In his 2005 prose collection Untold Stories, Bennett wrote of the mental illness that his mother and other family members suffered.
At the National Theatre in late 2009 Nicholas Hytner directed Bennett's play The Habit of Art, about the relationship between the poet W. H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten.
Bennett's play People opened at the National Theatre in October 2012. In December that year, Cocktail Sticks, an autobiographical play by Bennett, premièred at the National Theatre as part of a double bill with the monologue Hymn. The production was directed by Bennett's long-term collaborator Nicholas Hytner. It was well-received, and transferred to the Duchess Theatre in the West End of London, being subsequently adapted for radio broadcast by BBC Radio 4.
In July 2018, Allelujah!, a comic drama by Bennett about a National Health Service hospital threatened with closure, opened at London's Bridge Theatre to critical acclaim.
Personal life
The headstone, in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) cemetery, of Alan Bennett's Uncle Clarence, subject of a 1985 radio monologue
Bennett lived for 40 years on Gloucester Crescent in Camden Town in London and in 2006 moved a few minutes' walk away to Primrose Hill with his partner Rupert Thomas, the former editor of The World of Interiors magazine. Bennett also had a long-term relationship with his former housekeeper, Anne Davies, until her death in 2009.
Bennett is an agnostic. He was raised Anglican and gradually "left it [the church] over the years".
In 1988, Bennett declined the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1996 declined a knighthood.
In September 2005, Bennett revealed that, in 1997, he had undergone treatment for colorectal cancer, and described the illness as a "bore". His chances of survival were given as being "much less" than 50% and surgeons had told him they removed a "rock-bun" sized tumour. He began Untold Stories (published 2005) thinking it would be published posthumously, but his cancer went into remission.
In the autobiographical sketches which form a large part of the book Bennett wrote openly for the first time about his bisexuality. Previously Bennett had referred to questions about his sexuality as like asking a man who has just crawled across the Sahara desert to choose between Perrier or Malvern mineral water.
In October 2008, Bennett announced that he was donating his entire archive of working papers, unpublished manuscripts, diaries and books to the Bodleian Library, stating that it was a gesture of thanks repaying a debt he felt he owed to the British welfare state that had given him educational opportunities which his humble family background would otherwise never have afforded.
In September 2015, Bennett endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. The following month, after Corbyn's election victory, Bennett said: "I approve of him. If only because it brings Labour back to what they ought to be thinking about."
Following the death of Jonathan Miller in 2019, Bennett became the only surviving member of the original Beyond the Fringe quartet which had also included Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
Work
Main article: List of works by Alan Bennett
Selected credits
Film
A Private Function (screenplay), 1984
Prick Up Your Ears (screenplay), 1987
Little Dorrit, 1987
The Madness of King George (screenplay), 1995
The History Boys (screenplay), 2006
The Lady in the Van (screenplay), 2015
Theatre
The Madness of George III (writer), 1991
The Wind in the Willows (writer), 1991
Talking Heads (also writer), 1992
The Lady in the Van (writer), 1999
The History Boys (writer), 2004
The Habit of Art (writer), 2009
People (writer), 2012
Cocktail Sticks (writer), 2012
Allelujah! (writer), 2018
Bibliography
Beyond the Fringe (with Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore). London: Souvenir Press, 1962, and New York: Random House, 1963
Forty Years On, London: Faber, 1969
Getting On, London: Faber, 1972
Habeas Corpus, London: Faber, 1973
The Old Country, London: Faber, 1978
Enjoy, London: Faber, 1980
Office Suite, London: Faber, 1981
Objects of Affection, London: BBC Publications, 1982
A Private Function, London: Faber, 1984
Forty Years On; Getting On; Habeas Corpus, London: Faber, 1985
The Writer in Disguise, London: Faber, 1985
Prick Up Your Ears: The Film Screenplay, London: Faber, 1987
Two Kafka Plays, London: Faber, 1987
Talking Heads, London: BBC Publications, 1988; New York: Summit, 1990
Single Spies, London: Faber, 1989
The Lady in the Van (essay in the London Review of Books), 1989
The Lady in the Van (book), 1990
Single Spies and Talking Heads, New York: Summit, 1990
Poetry in Motion, (with others). 1990
The Wind in the Willows, London: Faber, 1991
Forty Years on and Other Plays, London: Faber, 1991
The Madness of George III, London: Faber, 1992
Poetry in Motion 2 (with others) 1992
Writing Home (memoir & essays) London: Faber, 1994
The Madness of King George (screenplay), 1995
Father! Father! Burning Bright (prose version of 1982 TV script, Intensive Care), 1999
The Laying on of Hands (stories), 2000
The Clothes They Stood Up In (novella), 2001
Untold Stories (memoir & essays), London, 2005, ISBN 0-571-22830-5
The Uncommon Reader (novella), London, 2007
A Life Like Other People's (memoir), London, 2009
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories (stories), London, 2011
Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology, London: Faber, 2015
Keeping On Keeping On (memoir & essays), London, 2016
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes, London: Faber, 2019 (part of Faber Stories series)
Awards and honours
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Alan Bennett
Bennett was made an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1987. He was also awarded a D.Litt by the University of Leeds in 1990 and an honorary doctorate from Kingston University in 1996. In 1998 he refused an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, in protest at its acceptance of funding for a chair from press baron Rupert Murdoch. He also declined a CBE in 1988 and a knighthood in 1996. He has stated that, although he is not a republican, he would never wish to be knighted, saying it would be a bit like having to wear a suit for the rest of his life.
In December 2011 Bennett returned to Lawnswood School, nearly 60 years after he left, to unveil the renamed Alan Bennett Library. He said he "loosely" based The History Boys on his experiences at the school and his admission to Oxford. Lawnswood School dedicated its library to the writer after he emerged as a vocal campaigner against public library cuts. Plans to shut local libraries were "wrong and very short-sighted", Bennett said, adding: "We're impoverishing young people."
In popular culture
In the film for television Not Only But Always, about the careers of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Bennett is portrayed by Alan Cox.
Along with the other members of Beyond the Fringe, Bennett is portrayed in the play Pete and Dud: Come Again, by Chris Bartlett and Nick Awde.
Bennett voices himself in the episode "Brian's Play" of the animated series Family Guy.
Bennett was portrayed by Harry Enfield as Stalin, in an episode of "Talking Heads of State", in BBC Two's 2014 satirical Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos.
Bennett is portrayed by Reece Dinsdale in a 2014 production of Untold Stories at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Bennett is portrayed by British actor Alex Jennings in the 2015 comedy-drama film The Lady in the Van. He appears as himself briefly at the end of the film.
In the season 2 episode "Mystery Man" of the Netflix show The Crown, Bennett is portrayed by British actor Seb Carrington.
In Stewart Lee's 2022 comedy special "Tornado", Bennett appears as himself at the very end. In the appearance, Bennett states that Erving Goffman would have enjoyed the special. This refers to a review of Lee's comedy that Bennett wrote for The London Review of Books in 2017 and acts as a callback to a previous joke in the special.
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