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T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)

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T.S. Eliot ranks with William Butler Yeats as the greatest English language poet of the 20th Century and was certainly the most influential. He was born Thomas Stearns Eliot into the bosom of a respectable middle class family on September 26, 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri. The family had roots in New England... See full bio »

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Thomas Stearns Eliot
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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(age 76) in London, England, UK
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2012 Hollow Men (video short)
 
2012 New in November 2011
 
2009 Going to Seed (short) (poem)
 
2004-2005 The Sunday Programme (TV series)
– Episode dated 27 March 2005 (2005) (poem)
– Episode dated 4 April 2004 (2004) (poem)
 
1999 The Waste Land (short) (inspired by)
 
1998 Great Performances (TV series)
– Cats (1998) (book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")
 
1998 Cats (book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")
 
1995 The Waste Land (short) (poem)
 
1981 The Waste Land (TV movie)
 
1977 Der Privatsekretär (TV movie) (novel)
 
1975 Ashes
 
1970 Solo (TV series)
– Little Gidding (1970) (poem)
 
1968 Cocktailparti (TV movie)
 
1967 Il canto d'amore di Prufrock (short) (text)
 
1967 Koktel (TV movie) (play "The Cocktail Party")
 
1965 Der Familientag (TV movie) (play)
 
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV series)
– The Cocktail Party (1964) (play)
 
1964 Die Cocktailparty (TV movie) (play "The Cocktail Party")
 
1962 Mord im Dom (TV movie) (play)
 
1960 Coctail party (TV movie) (play)
 
1960 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV series)
– Twentieth Century Theatre: The Elder Statesman (1960) (play)
 
1952 The Cocktail Party (TV movie) (play)
 
1951 Murder in the Cathedral (play / screenplay)
 
1950 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV series)
– The Family Reunion (1950) (play)
 
1938 The White Chateau (TV movie) (verse)
 
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2012 Animal Practice (TV series)
– Pilot (2012) (lyrics: "Mr. Mistofelees")
 
2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (writer: "MEMORY")
 
2011 The Simpsons (TV series)
– A Midsummer's Nice Dream (2011) (lyrics: "Memory" - uncredited)
 
2010 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
– Per què he plorat? (2010) ("Memory")
 
2009 Post Grad (writer: "Memory")
 
2009 Funny People (writer: "Memory")
 
2006 Diva (video) (writer: "Recuerdos Memory / Live")
 
2004 Connie and Carla (writer: "Memory")
 
2003 The School of Rock ("Memory")
 
1998-2003 Great Performances (TV series)
– Broadway's Lost Treasures (2003) (music: "Jellicle Songs" and "Memory")
– Cats (1998) (writer: "The Naming of Cats", "The Old Gumbie Cat", "The Rum Tum Tugger", "Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town", "Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer", "Old Deuteronomy", "The Awful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles", "The Jellicle Ball", "Gus: The Theatre Cat", "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat", "Macavity: The Mystery Cat", "Mr. Mistoffelees", "The Ad-dressing of Cats" / lyrics: "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats")
– Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration (1998) (lyrics: "Memory")
 
2002 Stars and the Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (video) (lyrics: "Memory")
 
2001 Birthday Girl ("Memory")
 
1989 The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (TV special) (lyrics: "Memory")
 
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1979 Apocalypse Now (poem: The Hollow Men")
 
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2012 Hollow Men (video short) (grateful acknowledgment)
 
2012 The Debridement of Rome (short) (acknowledgment)
 
2008 The Reader (acknowledgment: East Coker, Four Quartets by)
 
1976 Logan's Run ("Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" is quoted by permission)
 
Show ShowSelf (2 titles)
1944 Message from Canterbury (documentary)
The Fourth Tempter (voice) (uncredited)
 
1936 Cover to Cover (documentary short)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (4 titles)
2012 Melvyn Bragg on Class & Culture
Himself (archive sound)
 
2009 Arena (TV series documentary)
 
1988 Ten Great Writers of the Modern World (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1987 Thames Film (documentary)
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Tom & Viv -- Willem Dafoe and Miranda Richardson star in this passionately rendered story based on writer T.S. Eliot's tempestuous relationship with his first wife, Vivienne, the woman who inspired his greatest work. Going to Seed -- An interpretation of T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' A man is faced with the choice of becoming the hero of his own life, or succumbing to his comfortable, lonely devices.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1979) Stage: His play, "The Family Reunion," was produced by Royal Exchange Theatre Company and performed at New Round House Theatre in London, England, with Edward Fox OBE, Pauline Jameson, Daphne Oxenford, Constance Chapman, Avril Elgar, Joanna David, Esmond Knight and directed by Michael Elliott. See more »

Publicity Listings:

1 Biographical Movie  | 9 Print Biographies  | 1 Interview  | 5 Articles  | 1 Magazine Cover Photo  | See more »

Height:

5' 11" (1.80 m)
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. See more »

Trivia:

His second wife was thirty-eight years younger than he. She was his personal secretary for seven years before they married. See more »

Nickname:

Tom See more »

Star Sign:

Libra