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Also known as Robert Oxton Bolt

English playwright (1924–1995)

Person · Open Library

Works
30

Top works

  • Thomas More ou l'homme seul
  • Man for All Seasons (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
  • The new theatre of Europe
  • Opposites : HowThey Really Do Attract
  • Man for All Seasons (Drama Library)

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Film & TV

Writing · Sale, Cheshire, England, UK

Known for

  • Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Screenwriter (archive footage)2019
  • Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration — Self2010
  • Lost and Found: The Story of Cook's Anchor — himself1979
  • David Lean: A Self Portrait — Self1971
  • David Lean's Film of Doctor Zhivago — Self1965
  • Zhivago: Behind the Camera with David Lean — Self1965
  • Lawrence of Arabia — Officer with Pipe Gazing at Lawrence (uncredited)1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Lausanne
Active from
1989

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
20
Total plays
201

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Quotes

  • Roper: This was not practical; this was moral!More: Oh, now I understand you, Will. Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learned from books.
  • Cromwell: You brought yourself to where you are now.More: Yes. Still, in another sense, I was brought.
  • Cromwell: The King's a man of conscience and he wants either Sir Thomas More to bless his marriage or Sir Thomas More destroyed.Rich: They seem odd alternatives, Secretary.Cromwell: Do they? That's because you're not a man of conscience. If the King destroys a man, that's proof to the King that it must have been a bad man, the kind of man a man of conscience ought to destroy — and of course a bad man's blessing's not worth having. So either will do.
  • More: I will not take the oath. I will not tell you why I will not.Norfolk: Then your reasons must be treasonable!More: Not "must be;" may be.Norfolk: It's a fair assumption!More: The law requires more than an assumption; the law requires a fact.
  • Cromwell: You don't seem to appreciate the seriousness of your position.More: I defy anyone to live in that cell for a year and not appreciate the seriousness of his position.Cromwell: Yet the State has harsher punishments.More: You threaten like a dockside bully.Cromwell: How should I threaten?More: Like a Minister of State, with justice!Cromwell: Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.More: Then I'm not threatened.
  • More: You want me to swear to the Act of Succession?Margaret: "God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth." Or so you've always told me.More: Yes.Margaret: Then say the words of the oath and in your heart think otherwise.More: What is an oath then but words we say to God?

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date of birth
1924-08-15
date of death
1995-02-20
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Robert Bolt
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