Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his...
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who featured in The Sextet (1972), a BBC 2 series which included the Dennis Potter drama Follow the Yellow Brick Road, and Waterman later appeared in the...
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drama, for director Herbert Ross and writer Dennis Potter. After the commercial failure of the film, Potter invited McCallum to go to work in England....
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British Academy Television Awards (redirect from Dennis Potter Award)
performers. There are also a number of non-competitive honorary Awards—the Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing for Television; the Alan Clarke Award...
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broadcast on 30 January 1979. "Blue Remembered Hills" was written by Dennis Potter, directed by Brian Gibson and produced by Kenith Trodd. The play concerns...
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The Singing Detective (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes...
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Dennis Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English dramatist with a large canon of work. 1965 The Wednesday Play: The Confidence Course (no recording...
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age of 23 in the television drama The Bonegrinder (1968) written by Dennis Potter. In the same year he had another small part alongside Brian Cox in the...
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Madame Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Television roles include Emma Porlock in the Dennis Potter serial Cold Lazarus (1996)...
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Pennies from Heaven (TV series) (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from the song "Pennies from Heaven" written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials...
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best known for her appearance as usherette Sylvia Berry in the 1993 Dennis Potter serial Lipstick on Your Collar. Germaine's father, David, left her mother...
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Cold Lazarus (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. It forms the...
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for her role as the schoolteacher in the Dennis Potter television play Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) and Potter's serial The Singing Detective (1986), also...
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The Singing Detective (film) (category Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter)
based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes...
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Sarah Potter from CricketArchive retrieved 25 February 2021 "Fast bowler with a difference", The Times, April 24, 1982. Profile of Dennis Potter Potter, S...
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Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series) (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
television serial written by Dennis Potter. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in February and March 1993. Expanded from Potter's earlier television play...
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(1966) Elliott made many television appearances, which included plays by Dennis Potter such as Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972), Brimstone and Treacle,...
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story An Unkindness of Ravens. She appeared in two episodes of the Dennis Potter television miniseries Karaoke. McElhone's first major box-office role...
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of Dennis Potter, Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1998, p.145 (originally published as Fight and Kick and Bite: Life and Work of Dennis Potter, London:...
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a contract with a production company formed by television dramatist Dennis Potter and his producer Kenith Trodd. The corporate association proved short-lived...
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Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) (category Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter)
Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing...
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Poirot, The Bill and Doctors. He has played roles in two works by Dennis Potter: Play For Today: Joe's Ark (1974) and Blackeyes (1989). He demonstrated...
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Forman. The script went through a number of treatments, including one by Dennis Potter in 1975 and by James Costigan in 1976, before Pinter's final draft....
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Blackeyes (category Novels by Dennis Potter)
Blackeyes is a multi-layered novel by British writer Dennis Potter, published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. It concerns the relationship between sexuality...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It...
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Loves Me (in which he sings) and Blue Remembered Hills (written by Dennis Potter). In 2015–17 and 2019 he appeared in the Poldark series remake as Reverend...
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Karaoke (TV series) (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
Karaoke is a 1996 British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from pancreatic cancer. It forms the first half...
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the Junction and Cathy Come Home. The earliest television plays of Dennis Potter were featured in this slot. The series was suggested to the BBC's Head...
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Track 29 (category Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter)
nominated for and won a few awards at regional film festivals. The writer, Dennis Potter, adapted his earlier television play, Schmoedipus (1974), changing the...
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Blackeyes (TV series) (category Television shows written by Dennis Potter)
miniseries first broadcast in 1989, written and directed by Dennis Potter. It was adapted from Potter's novel of the same name. Broadcast as four 50-minute episodes...
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