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Dennis Potter
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dennis Christopher George Potter
British dramatist and screenwriter (1935–1994)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 32
Top works
- Gofrit ṿe-tsori
- The Vintage Book of Amnesia
- Art of Invective
- Hide and Seek
- Waiting for the Boat
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Film & TV
Berry Hill, UK
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC TV serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and the television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and…
Known for
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today — Self – Writer (archive footage, 1973 & 1977)2020
- An Interview with Dennis Potter — Himself1994
- Visions of Heaven and Hell — Self1994
- Blackeyes — Narrator (voice, uncredited)1989
- Television1985
- Blue Remembered Hills — Narrator (voice, uncredited)1979
- Between Two Rivers — Narrator1960
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 98
- Total plays
- 219
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dennis
- Family name
- Potter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Berry Hill
- Place of death
- Ross-on-Wye
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Edgar Awards
- Notable work
- Pennies from Heaven
- Official website
- intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/potter
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- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of death
- 1994-06-07
- date of birth
- 1935-05-17
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- medical condition
- psoriatic arthritis
- P12674
- Sormery
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