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Simon Gray

(1936–2008) Screenwriter United Kingdom

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Simon Gray was a screenwriter from the United Kingdom, best known for The Common Pursuit.

Quick Facts About Simon Gray

Born
October 21, 1936
Died
August 7, 2008
Nationality
United Kingdom
Profession
Screenwriter
Notable works
The Common Pursuit
Known for
Butley
Spouse
Beryl Kevern

About Simon Gray

Simon James Holliday Gray was an English playwright and memoirist who also had a career as a university lecturer in English literature at Queen Mary, University of London, for 20 years. While teaching at Queen Mary, Gray began his writing career as a novelist in 1963 and, during the next 45 years, in addition to five published novels, wrote 40 original stage plays, screenplays, and screen adaptations of his own and others' works for stage, film and television and became well known for the self-deprecating wit characteristic of several volumes of memoirs or diaries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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