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Peter Barnes (10 January 1931 – 1 July 2004) was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His best known work is the play The Ruling Class , which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.
Feb 10, 2021 · Peter Barnes was one of our sharpest playwrights. So why don’t we see his work? After decades of unjust neglect, the writer of such dazzling satires as The Ruling Class is getting a small...
Peter Barnes was an Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Barnes achieved critical acclaim and box-office success with his baroque comedy, The Ruling Class, in 1968. He later adapted his play into a 1972 film which garnered Peter O’Toole an Oscar nomination before becoming a cult classic.
Peter Barnes was born on 10 January 1931 in London, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Merlin (1998), Enchanted April (1991) and Might as Well Live (2000). He was married to Christine Horn and Charlotte Beck. He died on 1 July 2004 in London, England, UK.
- Writer, Producer, Director
- January 10, 1931
- Peter Barnes
- July 1, 2004
Jul 3, 2004 · Peter Barnes, the sardonic English playwright best known in this country for his play and film ''The Ruling Class,'' died on Thursday at a London hospital. He was 73.
The death on 1 July 2004 of the playwright Peter Barnes robbed the British theatre of one of its most individual and richly imaginative yet shamefully neglected writers.
Quick Reference. (1931–2004) Playwright, born in east London, educated at Stroud Grammar School. His first real success came with The Ruling Class (1969), a bizarre farce exploring the mechanics of power, but ... From: Barnes, Peter in The Oxford Companion to English Literature » Subjects: Literature. Reference entries.
