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Alun Davies Owen (24 November 1925 – 6 December 1994) was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and actor, predominantly in television. However, he is best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles ' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night (1964), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original ...
Jun 8, 2024 · Alun Owen (born Nov. 24, 1925, Liverpool, Eng.—died Dec. 6, 1994) was a Welsh dramatist for radio, television, screen, and stage whose work often reflects the cultural and religious conflicts of the city where he was born.
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Alun Owen was born on 24 November 1925 in Menai Bridge, Wales, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for A Hard Day's Night (1964), Armchair Theatre (1956) and The Concrete Jungle (1960). He died on 6 December 1994 in London, England, UK.
One of the more original talents to emerge from the new wave of British playwrights in the late 1950s, Alun Owen (b. Menai Bridge, Anglesey, Wales, 1925. d. London, 1994) gave British television drama the distinctive shape it took in the 1960s.
Dec 8, 1994 · Alun Owen, who received an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of "A Hard Day's Night," the 1964 film about the Beatles, died on Tuesday. He was 69. The Beatles film...
Oct 27, 1996 · The original version of Alun Owen's Oscar-nominated screenplay supplied them with short one-liners (in case they couldn't act), but they were naturals, and new material was written to exploit that. They were the real thing. The most powerful quality evoked by "A Hard Day's Night" is liberation. The long hair was just the superficial sign of that.
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Alun Owen, 1925-1994, playwright. Language of Material. English. Physical Description. 401 items. Scope and Content. A collection which consists mostly of the works of Alun Owen. The papers provide an insight into his life as an actor and writer.
