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Simon Gray
British writer and academic (1936-2008) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 71
Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years.
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Michael Lindsay-Hogg Directed Plaintiffs and Defendants (1975)
Christopher Morahan Directed After Pilkington and Common Pursuit
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Harold Pinter Directed Butley (1974)
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Ely Landau Produced Butley (1974)
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While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.
