Who wrote the play that Jack Thompson was the lead actor in 1980?
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Jack Thompson (actor) Jack Thompson, AM (born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). He is best known as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as "The Club" (1980), "Sunday Too Far Away" (1975), "The Man from Snowy River" (1982) and "Breaker Morant" (1980). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. He was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards.
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The Club (1980 film) The Club is a satirical play by Australian playwright David Williamson. It follows the fortunes of an Australian rules football club over the course of a season, and explores the clashes of individuals from within the club. It was inspired by the backroom dealings and antics of the Victorian Football League's Collingwood Football Club.
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Talley's Folly Talley's Folly is a 1980 play by American playwright Lanford Wilson, the second in his cycle, "The Talley Trilogy" between his plays "Talley & Son" and "Fifth of July". Set in an old boathouse near rural Lebanon, Missouri in 1944, it is a romantic comedy following the characters Matt Friedman and Sally Talley as they once and for all settle their feelings for each other. Wilson received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the work. The play is unique for Wilson in that it takes place in one act, with no intermission, set in ninety-seven minutes of real time. There is no set change.
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Yellow Jack (play) Yellow Jack is a 1934 docudrama play produced by Guthrie McClintic and a 1938 Hollywood movie by the same name. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The play is the work of Sidney Howard and is based on a chapter in Paul de Kruif’s 1927 book "Microbe Hunters".
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Rude Boy (film) Rude Boy is a 1980 British film directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay and filmed in 1978 and early 1979.
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Act of Love (1980 film) Act of Love is a 1980 made-for-TV film adaptation of the book "Act of Love: The Killing of George Zygmanik" by Judith Paige Mitchell. It was directed by Jud Taylor and written for screen by Michael De Guzman. It stars Ron Howard, Robert Foxworth, Mickey Rourke, David Spielberg and Jacqueline Brookes. Film also features "Married... with Children" star David Faustino. The score was composed by Billy Goldenberg.
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The Carmelite The Carmelite is a tragic play by the British writer Richard Cumberland. It was first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 2 December 1784. The play's hero Saint-Valori disguises himself as a Carmelite. The play enjoyed some success, and was later staged a theatre in Belfast where Wolfe Tone saw it in 1791.
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John Douglas Thompson John Douglas Thompson (born 1964) is an Obie Award-winning British-American actor who has been described as "one of the most compelling classical stage actors of his generation."
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Ernest Thompson Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director.
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Jimmy Thompson (actor) James Edward Thompson (30 October 1925 – 21 April 2005) was an English actor, writer and director.
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Good Fun Good Fun is a play by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1980. It is set in an Arts Centre in North West England.
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Sirocco (play) Sirocco is a play, in four acts, by Noël Coward. It originally opened at Daly's Theatre, on November 24, 1927. The production was directed by Basil Dean.
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A Handful of Friends A Handful of Friends is a 1976 play by David Williamson.
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Sam Thompson (playwright) Sam(uel) Thompson (21 May 1916 – 15 February 1965) was a Northern Irish playwright best known for his controversial plays "Over the Bridge", which exposes sectarianism, and "Cemented with Love", which focuses on political corruption. His works fall into the social realist genre but are distinct in their dramatisation of Northern Irish issues; they were ground-breaking in documenting sectarian violence before the eruption of the Troubles.
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The Competition (film) The Competition is a 1980 American drama film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving, directed by Joel Oliansky.
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The Vampire (play) The Vampire, formally known as "The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles", is a play written by James Robinson Planché. It was premiered on the London stage in 1820 as the first appearance of the vampire as an image of sophistication and nobility.
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Lion in the Streets Lion in the Streets is a two-act play by award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, workshopped as the first Public Workshop Project at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada in May 1990. It was then produced in its current form one month later at the duMaurier Theatre Centre, also in Toronto, as part of the duMaurier World Stage Theatre Festival. Music for the production was composed and performed by Bill Thompson.
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The Hothouse The Hothouse (1958/1980) is a full-length tragicomedy written by Harold Pinter in the winter of 1958 between "The Birthday Party" (1957) and "The Caretaker" (1959). After writing "The Hothouse" in the winter of 1958 and following the initial commercial failure of "The Birthday Party", Pinter put the play aside; in 1979 he re-read it and directed its first production, at Hampstead Theatre, where it opened on 24 April 1980, transferring to the Ambassadors Theatre on 25 June 1980, and it was first published, also in 1980, by Eyre Methuen. The play received its American premiere at the Trinity Repertory Company in 1982. Pinter himself played Roote in a subsequent production staged at the Minerva Theatre, in Chichester, in 1995, later transferring to the Comedy Theatre, in London.
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Ordinary People Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford. The film stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.
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Where the Buffalo Roam Where the Buffalo Roam is a 1980 American semi-biographical comedy film which loosely depicts author Hunter S. Thompson's rise to fame in the 1970s and his relationship with Chicano attorney and activist Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. Art Linson directed the picture, while Bill Murray portrayed the author and Peter Boyle portrayed Acosta, who is referred to in the film as Carl Lazlo, Esq. A number of other names, places, and details of Thompson's life are also changed.
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Marlowe (musical) Marlowe is a 1981 musical with a book by Leo Rost, lyrics by Rost and Jimmy Horowitz, and music by Horowitz. Despite a claim in the "Playbill" that "the story of this drama is essentially true and accurate," much of it is a fictionalized account of the life of Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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Die Laughing (film) Die Laughing is a 1980 American film released by Orion Pictures and starring Robby Benson.