Simon Gray
Scenariusz, Aktor
21 października 1936 — 6 sierpnia 2008 (71 years)
British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. "It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you." His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays. Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigour, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.
Known For
Filmografia
| 1992 | |
| 1987 | A Month in the Country · as ScreenplayNa Plex |
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| 1974 | ButleyNa Plex |
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| 2003 | imagine... · as Self |
| 1975 | Arena · as Self |
| 2018 | Trust · as Jimmy |
| 2014 | Do Not Disturb · as Play "otherwise Engaged" |
| 1953 | Television Theater · as Play |