Hugh Leonard (9 November 1926 – 12 February 2009) was an Irish dramatist, television writer, and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard...
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Ward Leonard, inventor Herman Leonard, photographer Hookey Leonard, Scottish professional footballer Hubert Léonard (1819–1890), Belgian violinist Hugh Leonard...
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short stories ever written". It was later adapted into a one-act play by Hugh Leonard and into the 1987 film The Dead written by Tony Huston and directed by...
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and the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009. Other awards include the Hugh Leonard Bursary, the Macaulay Fellowship, the Martin Healy Prize, the Kilkenny...
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published two years before his death. It was adapted for the stage by Hugh Leonard in 1965 as The Saints Go Cycling In. The book features a mad scientist...
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aired on BBC1 from 1968 to 1971. Starring Milo O'Shea, it was written by Hugh Leonard. Me Mammy first aired as a pilot within the seventh series of the BBC's...
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demolition, were brought to light almost fifty years after his death. Hugh Leonard Mangum was born June 3, 1877, on Main Street in Durham, son of Presley...
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Hugh Leonard Thompson Murphy (2 March 1952 – 16 November 1982) was a Northern Irish loyalist and UVF officer. As leader of the Shankill Butchers gang,...
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(band), a Chicago post-punk band of the 1980s Da (play), a 1978 play by Hugh Leonard Da (film), a 1988 film based on the play Damon Amendolara, American sports...
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in And a Nightingale Sang in 1985. She was seen on Broadway in Da by Hugh Leonard. In 2011 she appeared in a play by playwright Teresa Deevy, Temporal...
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dim-witted Davey. In late 2007, Gleeson played Herbert Pocket in the Hugh Leonard adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations at the Gate Theatre...
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Shaw, Jane Emily Herbert, Julius Olsson, Maeve Binchy, Robert Fisk, and Hugh Leonard. The district is named after Dalkey Island, just offshore. The name is...
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Shaw to new works by playwrights including Willis Hall, David Hare, Hugh Leonard and David Mercer. For the BBC and ITV she appeared frequently from the...
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Theatre Guide. Retrieved 24 December 2016. Irish Playography, Stephen D by Hugh Leonard [1] retrieved 7 July 2013 "A Digital Portrayal of James Joyce's 'Portrait'"...
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Percy (1971 film) (category Films with screenplays by Hugh Leonard)
book of Doctor in the House 15 years earlier. A script was prepared by Hugh Leonard while Thomas and Box filmed Doctor in Trouble. The film was shot at Elstree...
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furniture shifter. The series was inspired by "The Removals Person" by Hugh Leonard, an episode in the 1971 LWT comedy anthology series, Six Dates With Barker...
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Best Actor Tony Award for his performance as the title character in Hugh Leonard's Da. In 1988 he recreated the role for the film Da. On screen, he appeared...
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Widows' Peak (category Films with screenplays by Hugh Leonard)
Dunbar and Jim Broadbent. The film is based on an original screenplay by Hugh Leonard and Tim Hayes. Young Edwina Broome, an English war widow, moves into...
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Da is a 1978 memory play written by Hugh Leonard. The play had its American premiere at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, Maryland on 7 August 1973. Its...
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documentary drama portraying the 1916 Easter Rising. It was written by Hugh Leonard and directed by Michael Garvey and Louis Lentin. It was first broadcast...
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health due to cancer. The Barracks was adapted for the stage in 1969 by Hugh Leonard. His second book, The Dark (1965), tracks the progression of a young...
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (mid-1960s) based on a script by Hugh Leonard for Columbia, which they did not want to make an adaptation of Kafka's...
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amateur groups. The play was adapted for the Irish stage as Liam Liar by Hugh Leonard in 1976. The play is set in one Saturday: Act 1 in the morning, Act 2...
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played both Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty in The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. In 1987, Baker played Inspector Goole...
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House co-star Hugh Laurie. He and Ethan Hawke, his costar in Dead Poets Society and Tape, have been friends since childhood. Hawke and Leonard founded the...
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calls Bloom a "heartless flirt" and accuses him of "breach of promise". Hugh Leonard adapted six stories as Dublin One, which was staged at the Gate Theatre...
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Ray Charles Leonard (born May 17, 1956), best known as Sugar Ray Leonard, is an American former professional boxer, motivational speaker, and occasional...
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the 1913 Dublin Lock-out. In 1980, it was adapted into a TV drama by Hugh Leonard for RTÉ, Ireland's national broadcaster. The novel is an epic, tracing...
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Fadden in his play, The Change in Mame Fadden, specifically for Toal. Hugh Leonard also penned characters in his plays A life and Great Big Blonde with...
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the 1892 novel Una Vita by Italo Svevo A Life (play), a 1979 play by Hugh Leonard A Life, a 1986 collection of poetry by Iain Crichton Smith Life (manga)...
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