Alan Bennett

Person · Open Library

Born

1934

Works

101

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Film & TV

Writing · Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. Born in Leeds, he attended Oxford University where he studied history and performed with The Oxford Revue. He stayed to teach and research medieval history at the university for several years. His collaboration as writer and performer with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond…

Known for

• Innes Lloyd: The Producer — Self2025
• Alan Bennett: 90 Years On2024
• Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War2022
• Stewart Lee: Tornado — Self2022
• Remembers… — Self2022
• Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety — Himself2017
• Alan Bennett's Diaries — Himself2016
• The Lady in the Van — Alan Bennett (2014)2015
• Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time — Mole (voice)2013
• The Native Hue of Resolution2013

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1934

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,966

Total plays

85,104

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English author, actor, humorist and playwright. Early years Bennett was born in Armley in Leeds, West Yorkshire. The son of a co-op butcher, Bennett attended Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School), learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service, and gained a place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.However, having spent time in Cambridge during national service, and partly wishing to follow the object of his unre

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

   · 2013 · cited 34,706x

2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,816x

3. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

5. DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs

   · 2018 · cited 17,866x

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Quotes

• “Geoff: We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”
• “Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.”
• “Brian (asked how he feels about being a politician): Passes the time. Fills in that awkward gap between the cradle and the grave.”
• “George: That flaming dog has messed on our steps again. It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing disappear from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhino—six of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males. Do you know what dogs are? They're those beer-sodden soccer fans piling out of coaches in a lay-by, yanking their cocks out without a blush and pissing up against the wall thirty-nine in a row. I can't stand it.”
• “Polly: Question is whether you hate the coach party because they're like the dogs or hate the dogs because they're like the coach party.”
• “Mrs Wicksteed: Of course, I've known for years our marriage has been a mockery. My body lying there night after night in the wasted moonlight. I know now how the Taj Mahal must feel.”

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Wikidata facts

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