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Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) was a British writer and actor, best known for creating the Quatermass franchise. He also wrote for TV shows such as Kavanagh QC, Sharpe and Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
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With the centenary of his birth, screenwriter Nigel Kneale is being celebrated for his varied work – including his landmark 1950s dramas about an alien-infested UK, writes Adam Scovell.
- Adam Scovell
May 5, 2020 · Writing extensively for both film and TV, Nigel Kneale is one of the most important and radical British screenwriters of the last century. His work has haunted several generations of British viewers.
Nigel Kneale was one of Britain’s most significant screenwriters of the twentieth century. Credited by Mark Gatiss as “the inventor of modern television”, Kneale’s works included the Quatermass serials, The Year of the Olympics, The Stone Tape, Beasts and essential television adaptations of The Woman in Black and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Jun 26, 2017 · Neil Snowdon, editor of We Are the Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale, interviewed Joe Dante about the great British screenwriter best known for the ground-breaking Quatermass serials and films (1953-1979) and The Stone Tape (1972).
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Dec 31, 2014 · Thomas Nigel Kneale was a screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.
