Hugh Whitemore

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Hugh John Whitemore (16 June 1936 – 17 July 2018)[1] was an English playwright and screenwriter.[2]

Early life and education

Born at

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was taught by Peter Barkworth, then on the staff at RADA, who recognised he had the potential to make a significant contribution to the theatre, "though perhaps not as an actor."[1]

Career

He began his writing career in British television with both original television plays and adaptations of classic works by

President Nixon, The Final Days starring Lane Smith as Nixon. Whitemore's last work for television was My House in Umbria (2003), an adaptation of the novella by William Trevor starring Maggie Smith. He also wrote the episode, "Horrible Conspiracies", for the BBC series Elizabeth R
(1971).

Whitemore's film credits include: Man at the Top (1973), All Creatures Great and Small (1975), The Blue Bird (1976), The Return of the Soldier (1982), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) and Utz (1992).[4]

The plots of Whitemore's plays frequently focus on historical figures.

gross indecency. A television adaptation was broadcast in the UK in 1996. The Best of Friends (1987), about the friendship Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, shared with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. An adaptation by Whitemore of the Luigi Pirandello play As You Desire Me was staged at London's Playhouse Theatre in 2005 with Kristin Scott Thomas in the lead.[5]

Whitemore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at the age of 82 on 17 July 2018.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Coveney, Michael (18 July 2018). "Hugh Whitemore obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Hugh Whitemore Biography (1936- )" (Web). Film Reference. FilmReference.com. 1998. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
  3. ^ https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-90000380620?rskey=mhWkj6&result=20 [bare URL]
  4. ^ "Hugh Whitemore". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016.
  5. ^ Wolf, Matt (6 November 2005), "Review: 'As You Desire Me'", Variety, retrieved 17 August 2015

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