Ben Elton
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Born May 3, 1959 in Catford, South London, Ben Elton began life as a member of an upper-class academic family. During the war his family had been forced to flee Prague when Hitler invaded. In Godalming Grammar School young Elton participated in amateur dramatics and wrote his first play when he was visa mer fifteen years old. He later attended Manchester University and earned a degree in drama. He started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1980. Joining Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson in the Comedy Store in Leicester Square in London, Elton soon became one of the regular masters of ceremony. He continued to do stand-up in order to perform his own material. Soon, however, he branched out into plays, novels, and films. His first novel, Stark (1989), sold well in Britain and Australia. Popcorn, published in 1996, opened as a play in April 1997 and won the Laurence Olivier Award for best comedy in 1998. (Bowker Author Biography) Ben Elton is the author of four previous novels, Stark, Gridlock, This Other Eden, and Popcorn. He lives with his wife in London. (Bowker Author Biography) Ben Elton has written the British comedy series The Young Ones. His novels include Popcorn. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Ben Elton
Upstart Crow [DVD] [2016] 5 exemplar
Upstart Crow - Series 2 [DVD] 5 exemplar
The Young Ones - Oil, Boring and Flood [DVD] 3 exemplar
Three Summers [2017 film] — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
The First Victim 2 exemplar
Ben Elton Live 1989 1 exemplar
Ben Elton / Popcorn First Edition 1996 1 exemplar
Blast from the Past: Airport Special 1 exemplar
Motorvation 1 exemplar
Ben Elton: The Definitive Live Collection 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Leopoldstadt : a new play by Tom Stoppard : Directed by Patrick Marber [programme] (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Elton, Benjamin Charles
- Födelsedag
- 1959-05-03
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
Australia - Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Catford, London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
Sussex, UK - Utbildning
- University of Manchester
- Yrken
- comedian
playwright
novelist
film director
screenwriter - Relationer
- Elton, Lewis (father)
Elton, G. R. (uncle)
Ehrenberg, Victor (grandfather) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Honorary Rose for lifetime achievement, Rose d'Or festival (2007)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
One worthy of your attention i Time Travel, Alternate Histories and Parallel Worlds (maj 2016)
Recensioner
Listor
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 76
- Även av
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 14,006
- Popularitet
- #1,643
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 282
- ISBN
- 336
- Språk
- 19
- Favoritmärkt
- 29
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