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Christopher Hampton
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British playwright, screenwriter and translator (born 1946)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- God of Carnage - Signature Acting Edition
- What Remains
- Visit from an Unknown Woman
- God of Carnage
- Tales from Hollywood
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Film & TV
Writing · Faial, Açores, Portugal
Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation
Known for
- Joe Orton Laid Bare — Himself2017
- Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream — Self2017
- 100 Greatest Sexy Moments — Self2003
- Total Eclipse — The Judge1995
- The Oscars — Self1953
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 198
- Total plays
- 494
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,872x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,929x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,297x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,519x
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Quotes
- “Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”
- “I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”
- “Masturbation is the thinking man's television.”
- “Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?”
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Key facts
- Born
- Christopher James Hampton , ( 1946-01-26 ) 26 January 1946 (age 80) , Horta , Faial , Azores , Portugal
- Occupations
- Playwright, screenwriter, translator
- Spouse
- Laura de Holesch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
- Awards
- Full list
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Hampton3.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-01-26
- Commons category
- Christopher Hampton
- birth name
- Christopher James Hampton
- name in native language
- Christopher Hampton
- start of work period
- 1964-00-00
- P12674
- UEFA Euro 2004
Sources (9)
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Article
With Agnieszka Holland with whom he made the film Total Eclipse (1995) - Warsaw, Poland, 29 March 2025 Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and translator. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name, and for the film adaptation. He has thrice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Atonement (2007) and The Father (2020); winning for the former and latter.
Hampton is also known for his work in the theatre including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and The Philanthropist. He also translated the plays The Seagull (2008), God of Carnage (2009), The Father (2016), and The Height of the Storm (2019). He also wrote, with Don Black, the book and lyrics for the musical Sunset Boulevard (1994), for which they received Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.