Alan Bennett
Profile info
Known forWriting
GenderMale
Birthday9 May 1934 (92 years old)
Place of birthLeeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known credits100
Biography
Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame. He gave up academia, and turned to writing full time, his first stage play Forty Years On being produced in 1968. His output includes …
The Choral
2025 · Writer
Innes Lloyd: The Producer
2025 · Self
Alan Bennett: 90 Years On
2024
Allelujah
2023 · Executive Producer
Allelujah
2023 · Writer
Stewart Lee: Tornado
2022 · Self
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
2022
Remembers…
2022 · Self
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Writer
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020 · Creator
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018 · Writer
National Theatre Live: Allelujah!
2018 · Writer
Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
2017 · Himself
Alan Bennett's Diaries
2016 · Himself
The Lady in the Van
2015 · Alan Bennett (2014)
The Lady in the Van
2015 · Writer
The Native Hue of Resolution
2013
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
2013 · Mole (voice)
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
2013 · Hector
National Theatre Live: People
2013 · Writer
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
2012
Books: The Last Chapter?
2011 · Self
National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art
2010 · Writer
Being Alan Bennett
2009 · Himself
The History Boys
2006 · Screenplay
The History Boys
2006 · Author
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2004 · Self
The Young Visiters
2003 · Narrator (voice)
Meg and Mog
2003 · Owl
The Importance of Being Morrissey
2003 · Self
Thora Hird Tribute
2003 · Self, Denis Midgley (archive footage, uncredited)
Telling Tales
2000 · Writer
Telling Tales
2000 · Creator
Family Guy
1999 · Alan Bennett (voice)
Talking Heads 2
1998 · Writer
Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
1998 · (voice)
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997 · Sillery
The Willows in Winter
1996 · Mole
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse
1996 · Timmy Willie (voice)
In Love and War
1996 · Porter
The Abbey with Alan Bennett
1995 · Self
The Wind in the Willows
1995 · Mole (voice)
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995 · Self
The Madness of King George
1994 · 2nd MP
The Madness of King George
1994 · Screenplay
The Madness of King George
1994 · Theatre Play
Portrait or Bust
1994 · Himself
Portrait or Bust
1994 · Writer
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