John Osborne (1929-1994), Playwright, autobiographer and actor
John (James) Osborne
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Playwright and actor. Osborne burst onto the scene with his controversial first play Look Back in Anger , which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre on 8 May 1956. This seminal work, with its protagonist Jimmy Porter, the 'angry young man', irreversibly changed the course of British drama and put the Court on the map as a home for rebellious young writers. Further plays at the Court included The Entertainer (1957), Epitaph for George Dillon (with Anthony Creighton, 1958) and Inadmissible Evidence (1964).
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by Rollie McKenna
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by Daniel Farson
vintage contact sheet, July 1956
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by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, July 1956
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John Osborne; (Eileen) Mary Ure
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by Mark Gerson
cibachrome print from original transparency, August 1981
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