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Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). [1]
Dennis Potter. Writer: Gorky Park. Dennis Christopher George Potter was born 17 May 1935 in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean, where his grandfather and father were coal miners.
May 12, 2024 · Dennis Potter was born and raised in Gloucestershire and educated at New College, Oxford. His controversial career as a playwright, journalist and critic began in the 1960s. He was one of the first significant writers to write specifically for the medium of television.
Dennis Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English dramatist with a large canon of work.
Feb 17, 2009 · Late in Dennis Potter's greatest and most famous work, The Singing Detective, the mystery-writer hero Philip Marlow is grumbling about the public's desire for art that offers easy answers:...
Dennis Potter. Writer: Gorky Park. Dennis Christopher George Potter was born 17 May 1935 in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean, where his grandfather and father were coal miners.
Dennis Potter was one of the most important creative figures in the history of British television. From 1965 until his death in 1994, he constructed a personal body of work of such remarkable depth and range that has yet to be matched in the TV medium.
Jun 12, 1994 · IN FEBRUARY, Dennis Potter was told that he would soon die of cancer of the pancreas and liver. Potter, who died Tuesday at the age of 59, had devoted his professional life to television,...
Jun 5, 2014 · Television without pity: Dennis Potter’s TV criticism. Not just Britain’s greatest TV writer, Dennis Potter also worked for years as a TV critic, earning the reputation of a hellfire preacher who was as passionate damning the witless as he was singing the praises of some surprising favourites.
Jun 8, 1994 · Dennis Potter, the caustic and controversial writer of the innovative British television dramas "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven," died yesterday at his home...
