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Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 73
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism.
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Albert Finney Kingsley wrote Episode 1.1 and Episode 1.2
Jonathan Miller Directed Take a Girl Like You (1970)
John Irvin Directed Haunted: The Ferryman (1974)
Sidney Gilliat Directed Only Two Can Play (1962)- Kenneth Griffith Also in Lucky Jim and Only Two Can Play
Peter Sasdy Directed Ending Up (1989)
František Filip Directed Egyptologové (1974)
Roy Boulting Produced Lucky Jim (1957)
George Woodbridge Also in Only Two Can Play (1962)- Hal E. Chester Produced Take a Girl Like You (1970)
John Boulting Directed Lucky Jim (1957)- James Cellan Jones Directed Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
Tristram Powell Directed The Old Devils (1992)- Leslie Gilliat Produced Only Two Can Play (1962)
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He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
