Evan Jones
Escritor
29 de diciembre de 1927 — 18 de abril de 2023 (95 años)
Evan Jones (29 December 1927 – 18 April 2023) was an influential Jamaican playwright, poet and novelist. He is best known for his screenplay for Wake in Fright (1971), a Palme d'Or nominated, 2009 Cannes Classic championed by Martin Scorsese; it is one of only two films to ever be screened twice at the festival. Jones was the recipient of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for The Fight Against Slavery (1975), a limited series created and presented by him for the BBC. He is also the writer of Madhouse on Castle Street (1963), a television play which featured the acting début of Bob Dylan. Over the course of his career, Jones collaborated with a number of notable figures of twentieth century cinema, including Harold Pinter, John Huston, Michael Caine, Dirk Bogarde, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Sylvester Stallone and Max von Sydow. Jones' archive is held by the Bodleian Library at his alma mater, the University of Oxford, who displayed his poetry as part of their 2024–5 exhibition Write Cut Rewrite.
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Filmography
| 1992 | Shadow of the Wolf · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | A Show of Force · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | ChillersEn Plex |
| 1986 | Kangaroo · as Screenplay |
| 1984 | Champions · as Screenplay |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Victory · as Screenplay |
| 1974 | |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Night Watch · as ScreenplayEn Plex |
| 1971 | Wake in Fright · as ScreenplayEn Plex |
| 1969 | Two Gentlemen Sharing · as Screenplay |
| 1966 | Funeral in Berlin · as Screenplay |
| 1966 | Modesty Blaise · as Screenplay |
| 1965 | |
| 1964 | King & Country · as Screenplay |
| 1962 | The Damned · as Screenplay |
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| 1960 | |
| 1956 |
| 1975 | The Fight Against Slavery · as Self - Introduction |
| 1979 | The Racing Game · as Written By |
| 1975 | The Fight Against Slavery · as Written By |