Biography
Beginning as a writer of light comedies, Rattigan became more determined to write more serious dramas after the Second World War; the most famous of which are The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952), and Separate Tables (1954). Many of his works have been filmed and are frequently revived. Rattigan disliked the Swinging London of the 1960s and moved to Bermuda, where he lived off the proceeds from lucrative screenplays including The V.I.P.s and The Yellow Rolls-Royce. For a time he was the highest-paid screenwriter in the world.
He was knighted in the early seventies and moved back to Britain, where he experienced a minor revival in his reputation before his death. He died in 1977 at the age of 66. Fifteen years after his death, largely through a revival of The Deep Blue Sea, at the Almeida Theatre, directed by the film-maker Karel Reisz, Rattigan has increasingly been seen as one of the century's finest playwrights, an expert choreographer of emotion, and an anatomist of human emotional pain.
Protagonist Pictures
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2011 |
The Deep Blue Sea - theater play |
1999 |
The Winslow Boy - theater play |
1994 |
The Browning Version - theater play |
1993 |
K.O. (TV movie) - original screenplay |
1987 |
Cause célebre (TV movie) - theater play |
1985 |
The Browning Version (TV movie) - theater play |
1983 |
Separate Tables (TV movie) - theater play |
1979 |
Vathia galazia thalassa (TV movie) - theater play |
1973 |
Bequest to the Nation - theater play |
Brauningova verzija (TV movie) - theater play |
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Pán profesor odchádza (TV movie) - theater play |
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1970 |
Francuski bez muke (TV movie) |
1969 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - theater play |
1968 |
An Einzeltischen (TV movie) - theater play |
1964 |
Harlekinade (TV movie) - theater play |
The Yellow Rolls-Royce |
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1963 |
Der Mann des Tages (TV movie) |
The V.I.P.s |
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1962 |
Handen på hjärtat (TV movie) - theater play |
Hånden på hjertet (TV movie) - theater play |
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Lockende Tiefe (TV movie) - theater play |
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Luottamuksella (TV movie) - theater play |
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Rien que la vérité (TV movie) - theater play |
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1961 |
Avskjedsgaven (TV movie) - theater play |
1960 |
Miehen varjo (TV movie) - theater play |
1959 |
Pojken Winslow (TV movie) |
Voimakas kuin meri (TV movie) - theater play |
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1958 |
Separate Tables - theater play |
Skuggan av en man (TV movie) - theater play |
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The Winslow Boy (TV movie) |
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1957 |
The Prince and the Showgirl - screenplay, theater play |
1955 |
The Browning Version (TV movie) |
The Deep Blue Sea - screenplay, theater play |
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The Man Who Loved Redheads - screenplay, theater play |
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1953 |
The Final Test - screenplay, original screenplay |
1952 |
The Sound Barrier |
1951 |
The Browning Version |
1948 |
Bond Street |
The Winslow Boy - screenplay, theater play |
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1947 |
Brighton Rock |
While the Sun Shines - screenplay, theater play |
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1945 |
The Way to the Stars |
1944 |
English Without Tears - original screenplay |
1942 |
The Day Will Dawn |
Uncensored |
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1941 |
Quiet Wedding |
1940 |
French Without Tears |
1937 |
Gypsy |
Series | |
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1992 |
Performance - theater play |
1969 |
ITV Saturday Night Theatre |
1968 |
A Touch of Venus |
1967 |
ITV Playhouse |
1965 |
BBC Play of the Month - theater play |
Estudio 1 - theater play |
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1959 |
Startime |
1957 |
The DuPont Show of the Month - theater play |
1956 |
Armchair Theatre |
1955 |
ITV Play of the Week - screenplay, theater play |
ITV Television Playhouse - theater play |
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1950 |
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre - screenplay, theater play |
Lux Video Theatre - theater play |
Theatrical recording | |
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2016 |
The Deep Blue Sea |
Actor
Series | |
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1953 |
The United States Steel Hour |
Author
Movies | |
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1964 |
Agamemnón (TV movie) - book |
1961 |
Der Fall Winslow (TV movie) - book |