J. B. Priestley
Writer
Born: September 13, 1894 (89 years old)
Died: August 14, 1984
Place of birth: Bradford, England
Biography
John Boynton Priestley OM was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future.
Filmography (21)
- Omnibus (1967, ★ 7.2)
- Last Holiday (1950, ★ 7.2)
- An Inspector Calls (1954, ★ 7.2)
- Sing As We Go (1934, ★ 5.8)
- The Foreman Went to France (1942, ★ 6.6)
- Let the People Sing (1942, ★ 6.8)
- The Good Companions (1933, ★ 6.4)
- Jamaica Inn (1939, ★ 6.1)
- The Old Dark House (1932, ★ 6.7)
- An Inspector Calls (2015, ★ 7.4)
- Last Holiday (2006, ★ 7.3)
- The Old Dark House (1963, ★ 5.9)
- They Came to a City (1944, ★ 6.2)
- The Princess Comes Across (1936, ★ 6.3)
- The United States Steel Hour (1953, ★ 6.3)
- Out of the Unknown (1965, ★ 7.1)
- A Severed Head (1971, ★ 5.2)
- Lost Empires (1986, ★ 5.6)
- An Inspector Calls (2015, ★ 4.5)
- BBC Play of the Month (1965, ★ 5.3)
- Armchair Theatre (1956, ★ 6)