Julian Mitchell
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Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell,
Mitchell was born in
In the late 1960s, Mitchell co-wrote the teleplay Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) with Ray Davies of The Kinks. It was never produced, though it gave rise to the band's concept album. He recently recalled the aborted project: "Arthur had a most unhappy history. It was originally meant to be a ... sort of rock opera, and we got as far as casting (excellent director and actors) and finding locations and were about to go when the producer went to a production meeting without a proper budget, tried to flannel his way through it, was immediately sussed and the production pulled. I have never been able to forgive the man."[citation needed]
Mitchell has written nine produced plays, including Another Country, which won the SWET (now Olivier) Award for best play of the year (1981), and After Aida (1985), a play-with-music about composer Giuseppe Verdi.
Mitchell has screenplay credits for five feature films. The earliest was
In 2007 he wrote the BBC4 drama
Novels
- Imaginary Toys (1961)
- A Disturbing Influence (1962)
- As Far as You Can Go (1963)
- The White Father (1964) (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award)
- A Circle of Friends (1966)
- The Undiscovered Country (1968)
References
External links
- Julian Mitchell at IMDb
- Armstrong, Esther (3 June 2009). "Interview with Julian Mitchell: The Past is Another Country". Retrieved 18 June 2009.