What other occupation could said to have been shared by Dennis Potter the television dramatist and screenwriter and Alexander Woollcott the American critic and Round Table member?
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Dennis Potter Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
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Alexander Woollcott Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for "The New Yorker" magazine and a member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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Edwin Apps Edwin Apps (born in 14 May 1931) is an English television actor and writer. He appeared in many British and French television series and films, which include "Whack-O!", "I Thank a Fool", "Danger Man", "The Avengers", "Steptoe and Son", "My Wife Next Door", "Special Branch", "Katts and Dog", "", "Vatel", "Joséphine, ange gardien", "15 ans et demi" and others. He created and co-wrote sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters" (1966–71) with his wife, Pauline Devaney.
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Christopher Hitchens bibliography Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a prolific English-American author, political journalist and literary critic. His books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. Recognized as a public intellectual, he was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. Hitchens was a columnist and literary critic at "The Atlantic", "Vanity Fair", "Slate", "World Affairs", "The Nation", "Free Inquiry", and a variety of other media outlets.
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Tim Vine Timothy Mark "Tim" Vine (born 4 March 1967) is an English writer, actor, comedian and presenter, known for his quick-fire puns and his role on the BBC series "Not Going Out" until his departure in 2012. He has released a number of DVDs of his stand-up comedy and has written several joke books. In 2010 and 2014, Vine won the award for best joke at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His winning jokes were: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again" and “I decided to sell my Hoover ... well it was just collecting dust.” He was the runner up in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
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Henry Pettitt Henry Alfred Pettitt (7 April 1848 – 24 December 1893), was a British actor and dramatist.
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F. R. Leavis Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978) was a British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge and later at the University of York.
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Ivor Montagu Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist in the 1930s. He helped to develop a lively intellectual film culture in Britain during the interwar years, and was also the founder of the International Table Tennis Federation.
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Thomas Sergeant Perry Thomas Sergeant Perry (1845–1928) was an American editor, academic, literary critic, literary translator, and literary historian. He was a lifelong friend and associate of Henry James and a member of the faculty at Harvard University.
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Dmytro Nytczenko Dmytro Nytczenko (Ukrainian: Дмитро Нитченко ; literary pseudonyms: Dmytro Chub or Ostap Zirchasty; February 21, 1905, Zinkiv, Poltava, Ukraine – May 27, 1999, Melbourne, Australia) was a Ukrainian-born literary critic, novelist, memoirist, editor, literary researcher, teacher, and social activist who lived and worked in Australia.
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James Wood (critic) James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965 in Durham, England) is an English-American literary critic, essayist and novelist. s of 2014 , he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at "The New Yorker" magazine.
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Felix Barker Richard Felix Raine Barker (7 May 1917 – 11 July 1997) was an English journalist, drama critic and historian. He is known for having been the youngest dramatic critic on Fleet Street.
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Alexander McCall Smith R. Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE (born 24 August 1948), is a British writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees concerned with these issues.
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Russell Baker Russell Wayne Baker (born August 14, 1925) is an American writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography "Growing Up" (1982). He was a columnist for "The New York Times" from 1962 to 1998, and also hosted the PBS show "Masterpiece Theatre" from 1992 to 2004. The ""Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994" states:
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Claudia Rosett Claudia Rosett is an American writer and journalist. A former staff writer for "The Wall Street Journal", she writes a foreign affairs column for "Forbes", blogs for Pajamas Media, makes guest appearances on television and radio, and is attached to the Independent Women’s Forum and the London Center for Policy Research. Her recent work has focussed on North Korea, Iran, the United Nations and -- with emphasis on merchant vessel tracking -- methods of sanctions evasion.
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Stanley Rose Stanley Rose (December 5, 1899 – October 17, 1954) was an American bookseller, literary agent and raconteur whose eponymous Hollywood bookshop, located (from 1935 until its closure in 1939) adjacent to the famous Musso & Frank Grill restaurant, was a gathering place for writers working or living in and around Hollywood. Rose’s most notable literary associates were William Saroyan, to whom he was variously a friend, a drinking and hunting companion, and a literary representative; and Nathanael West, whose 1939 novel "The Day of the Locust" owed much of its “local color” to its author’s acquaintance with Rose.
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Catherine Alexander Catherine Alexander (born 1940) is an American author and teacher, living near Seattle, Washington. To date she has published stories in 29 literary journals, including North Atlantic Review, Rosebud (two successive issues), Bryant Literary Review, Rockhurst Review and won "Jurors' Choice" in Spindrift. National Public Radio has aired her work.
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Dennis Silk Dennis Raoul Whitehall Silk CBE (born 8 October 1931) is a former schoolmaster and international cricketer. He was also a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, about whom he has spoken and written extensively.
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Lillian Hellman Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter known for her success as a playwright on Broadway, as well as her left-wing sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52. Although she continued to work on Broadway in the 1950s, her blacklisting by the American film industry caused a drop in her income. Many praised Hellman for refusing to answer questions by HUAC, but others believed, despite her denial, that she had belonged to the Communist Party.
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Dennis Scott (writer) Dennis Scott (16 December 1939 – 21 February 1991) was a Jamaican poet, playwright, actor (best known for appearances on "The Cosby Show") and dancer. His well-known poem "Marrysong" is used in the IGCSE syllabus. He was also a theatre director and drama teacher.
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Jeremy Catto Dr Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto (born 1939) was, until 2006, the Rhodes Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Oriel College, Oxford, where he was also Senior Dean. He holds a master's degree (M.A.) and a doctorate (D.Phil.) His research interests lie in the politics and religion of later medieval England. In a piece in "The Spectator" to commemorate his retirement in June 2006, Alan Duncan MP described him as "the quintessential Oxford don... if one were to devour C. P. Snow, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Porterhouse Blue, there is a smattering of Catto in each."
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Henry Taylor Parker Henry Taylor Parker (29 April 1867–30 March 1934), "known for many years largely by his initials H. T. P.", was an American theater and music critic. "Time" said Parker's "reviews were famed" and for "29 years he had been Boston's oracle on theatre and music." The magazine also said Parker was a "great critic" as was Philip Hale who died around the same time. Parker was "one of the most distinguished critics of his era, respected for his long, thoughtful, and open‐minded reviews." His biographer said “This remarkable little man of fine perceptions, with his dark eyes burning quizzically in a head bent forward with a sleuthing thrust and emphatic in its nods, was a giant among critics.”