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Denis Cannan (1919–2011)

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in Oxford, England, UK

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(age 92) in England, UK
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1980-1988 Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)
– The Verger (1988) (dramatisation)
– The Colonel's Lady (1988) (dramatisation)
– Accidental Death (1984) (dramatisation)
– The Memory Man (1983) (dramatisation)
– The Absence of Emily (1982) (dramatisation)
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1979-1982 BBC2 Playhouse (TV series)
– By George (1982) (script)
– Home Movies (1979) (play)
 
1977 Play for Today (TV series)
– One Day at a Time (1977) (writer)
 
1968 Mayerling (additional dialogue)
 
1968 Tell Me Lies (play)
 
1967 The Benefit of the Doubt (documentary) (play "US" / as Dennis Cannan)
 
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (screenplay / as Dennis Cannan)
 
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
 
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV series)
– Captain Carvallo (1964) (writer)
 
1964 Alive and Kicking
 
1963 Tamahine (writer)
 
1963 A Boy Ten Feet Tall (writer)
 
1961 Why Bother to Knock
 
1960 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV series)
– Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe (1960) (adaptation / translation)
 
1959 Play of the Week (TV series)
– The Power and the Glory (1959) (adaptation)
 
1956-1957 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– Heaven and Earth (1957) (screenplay)
– Captain Carvallo (1956) (writer)
 
1956 The Adventures of Aggie (TV series)
– Cut Glass (1956) (writer)
 
1953 Encounter (TV series)
– Captain Carvallo (1953)
 
1953 The Beggar's Opera (writer)
 
1951 Captain Carvallo (TV movie) (play)
 
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1953 The Beggar's Opera
John, the Footman
 
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(October 13, 1966) Peter Brook and his play, "US," was performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at the Aldwych Theatre in London, England with Ian Hogg, Glenda Jackson, Robert Lloyd, Clifford Rose, Morgan Sheppard, Barry Stanton, Michael Williams, and Henry Woolf in the cast. Peter Brook was director. See more »

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