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    J. B. Priestley. Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Boynton Priestley. The Official J. B. Priestley website The J. B. Priestley Society J. B...
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    to enable archaeology to reach new audiences. In 1953 she married J. B. Priestley, with whom she authored several works. She was co-founder of the Campaign...
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  • The English author J. B. Priestley wrote a number of dramas during the 1930s and 40s, which have come to be known as his Time Plays. They are so called...
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    announced plans to launch a prototype PocketQube satellite by 2024. The J. B. Priestley library is open 24 hours, 360 days a year, it has 530,000 volumes,...
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  • film is loosely based on the 1950 British film of the same name by J. B. Priestley. The film stars Queen Latifah as Georgia, a humble department store...
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    home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge; in the 20th, the novelist J. B. Priestley; and in the 21st, the model Kate Moss. It is a Grade II* listed building...
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    Civic Playhouse Company, and became independent of its parent in 1932. J. B. Priestley became president of the theatre in 1932, when it separated from Leeds...
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    science fiction lends itself to combination with other genres. In 1953, J. B. Priestley described the "Western" as one of the three types of science fiction...
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  • illustrator Jason Priestley (born 1969), Canadian-American actor J. B. Priestley (1894–1984), English writer and broadcaster Mark Priestley (1976–2008), Australian...
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    Joseph Priestley FRS (/ˈpriːstli/; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian...
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  • Last Holiday (1950 film) (category Films with screenplays by J. B. Priestley)
    written and co-produced by J. B. Priestley and directed by Henry Cass, featuring irony and wit often associated with Priestley. Shooting locations included...
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  • playwright J. B. Priestley. He was educated at Bryanston School and King's College, Cambridge, where he read Classics and English. Tom Priestley died on...
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    Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian-American actor and television director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on...
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  • An Inspector Calls (category Plays by J. B. Priestley)
    dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known...
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  • the 1943 play of the same title by J. B. Priestley, and is notable for including a cameo appearance by Priestley as himself. The plot concerns the experiences...
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  • thriller television film written by Helen Edmundson, based on the 1945 J. B. Priestley play of the same name. It is directed by Aisling Walsh, produced by...
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    the neighbouring George Inn, were favourite locations of the author J. B. Priestley, whose ashes are buried in the churchyard. The church dates from the...
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  • in the 1986 television series Lost Empires, based on the novel by J. B. Priestley, in which she acted alongside Colin Firth. She has also appeared in...
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    Cooper). Onstage, she starred in Time and the Conways, written by J. B. Priestley, and The Winter's Tale, based on the play by William Shakespeare. Other...
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  • The Good Companions (category Novels by J. B. Priestley)
    the English author J. B. Priestley. Written in 1929, it follows the fortunes of a concert party on a tour of England. It is Priestley's most famous novel...
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  • debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J. B. Priestley play Dangerous Corner. He later accepted an offer to work with Alec...
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    film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Boris Karloff, Melvyn...
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    Geoffrey Palmer (actor) (category EngvarB from January 2020)
    Samuel Taylor at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham (1955). Eden End by J. B. Priestley at the Royal National Theatre (1974). Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett...
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    minister Geoffrey Howe, Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, writer J. B. Priestley, and Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz. The devastation caused...
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  • Hasso von Manteuffel, Bill Mauldin, John J. McCloy, Lord Mountbatten of Burma, Sir Richard O'Connor, J. B. Priestley, Saburo Sakai, Albert Speer, James Stewart...
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  • An Inspector Calls (1954 film) (category Films based on works by J. B. Priestley)
    Eileen Moore. It is based upon the 1945 play An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley and was adapted for the screen by Desmond Davis. It was shot at Shepperton...
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    Edward Albee Guthrie, Minneapolis Johnson Over Jordan Robert Johnson J. B. Priestley West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds 2003 The Master Builder Halvard Solness...
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    by modern playwrights, including Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy and J. B. Priestley. After the Second World War, he lived in the United States, where he...
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  • Jamaica Inn (film) (category Films with screenplays by J. B. Priestley)
    Sidney Gilliat (screenplay and dialogue), Joan Harrison (screenplay), J. B. Priestley (additional dialogue), Daphne du Maurier (underlying novel) Cinematography...
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  • Time and the Conways (category Plays by J. B. Priestley)
    Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed...
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