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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.
Most Popular John Osborne Trailers
Total trailers found: 30
05 December 1980
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
20 February 1985
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
23 June 1968
A lawyer's agonizing journey to the breaking point of his private and professional lives as he becomes more and more alienated from everyone connected with him.
21 January 1968
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
18 September 1961
Documentary about the anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Trafalgar Square on 17 September 1961.
06 April 1985
The story of the last years of Handel.
03 February 1971
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral.
04 December 1993
Adaptation of John Osborne's play.
02 January 1976
Champagne dialogue alleviates nervousness of sleeping together.
02 January 1970
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
02 January 1974
Sophisticated executive out with pouty bit of goods from the suburbs.
24 August 1963
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
10 April 1968
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
02 January 1971
Three couples planning their secret weekend away are exposed.
01 January 1995
The story of Henry Purcell.
25 July 1960
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
02 January 1985
Adaptation of John Osborne's autobiography about his early life, showing his much-loved but frail father and combative relationship with his mother.
24 September 1974
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
21 January 1974
A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
06 November 1960
A dramatized account of a Victorian cause célèbre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy.
29 January 1968
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
02 March 1978
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections.
02 July 1980
Jimmy is a self-loathing and frustrated musician who works at a candy shop. He takes out his rage on his long suffering wife and his business partner and best friend, who lives next door.
07 October 1970
The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.
02 January 1981
Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to pieces.
15 September 1959
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
03 March 1981
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide.
28 December 1989
Look Back in Anger is a love triangle involving the brilliant-but-disaffected young Jimmy Porter, his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter, and her aristocratic best friend Helena Charles.
27 October 2016
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
02 January 1979
A world-weary actress is attended by her homosexual dresser as various visitors come to her dressing room.
