Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English author, playwright, essayist, television writer, and screenwriter. He is known...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) (category Films with screenplays by Simon Raven)
and focus more on plot, as in From Russia with Love. Peter Hunt asked Simon Raven to write some of the dialogue between Tracy and Blofeld in Piz Gloria...
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and Cynthia Harris portrayed Mrs. Simpson. The series was scripted by Simon Raven, based on Fox's maternal aunt Frances Donaldson's biography of the King...
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Set in Victorian era England with a backdrop of parliamentary life, Simon Raven's dramatisation covers six novels and follows the events and characters...
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Climate (1949), set between 1924 and 1940, with a screenplay adaptation by Simon Raven. It was originally broadcast on the ITV network in eight episodes. The...
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Glaister & N. J. Crisp Written by N. J. Crisp Eric Paice John Pennington Simon Raven Douglas Watkinson Brian Finch Ray Jenkins Elaine Morgan Directed by Philip...
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medieval college in the city centre Lancaster College, various books by Simon Raven. Bears more than a passing resemblance to King's College, founded by...
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environmentalist Robert J. Raven, Australian arachnologist Sarah Raven (born 1963), gardener, cook and writer, daughter of John Simon Raven, novelist, journalist...
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contributors, among them Sarah Waters, Michel Faber, Barry Humphries, Simon Raven, Auberon Waugh, Alain de Botton, India Knight, Arnold Wesker, Mariella...
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novel), a 1910 novel by H Rider Haggard Morning Star (Raven novel), a 1984 novel by Simon Raven Morning Star (Brown novel), a 2016 novel by Pierce Brown...
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The common raven or northern raven (Corvus corax) is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across...
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1964) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Raven. He is best known for his appearances with professional wrestling promotions...
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Within. William Heinemann. Random House ed., 1995, ISBN 0-679-42883-6 Simon Raven & Martin Shuttleworth "Graham Greene Interviewed, The Art of Fiction...
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Incense for the Damned (category Films with screenplays by Simon Raven)
Alexander Davion, Peter Cushing and Edward Woodward. It is based on the 1960 Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear Scarlet. The film centres on Richard Fountain, a scholar...
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World War II, and she retired from athletics. Author and playwright Simon Raven is her nephew. Adrianne Blue, "Obituary: Ruth Christmas", The Guardian...
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directed by John Mackenzie, was released in 1971 with a screenplay by Simon Raven which stayed true to the basic plot, but added sexual scenes and changed...
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to: Friends in Low Places (novel), a 1965 Alms for Oblivion novel by Simon Raven "Friends in Low Places" (I'm with Her), a 2004 television episode "Friends...
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Point (1968), miniseries directed by Rex Tucker A BBC mini-series by Simon Raven, starring Tristram Jellinek. It was later broadcast on PBS television...
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Experience in Literature by Joyce Carol Oates An Inch of Fortune by Simon Raven (I.ii) From "My salad days / When I was green in judgment" (I.v): See...
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1873. Reprinted: St. Albans: Panther, 1968 (with an introduction by Simon Raven). London: Oxford University Press, 1973 (with an introduction by Michael...
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Launis (1884–1959) Hetta Frith, character in Places Where They Sing by Simon Raven (1970) Hetta Carbury, character in The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope...
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The Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), also known as Site R, is a U.S. military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge Summit...
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Raven Software Corporation (trade name: Raven; formerly Raven Software, Inc.) is an American video game developer based in Middleton, Wisconsin, and part...
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in a Cold Climate has been adapted twice as a mini-series: in 1980 by Simon Raven for Thames Television (set 1924–1940) starring Lucy Gutteridge, Rosalyn...
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"both exciting and extremely civilized". Reviewing for The Listener, Simon Raven believed that Fleming was a "kind of supersonic John Buchan", but he...
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Unman, Wittering and Zigo (film) (category Films with screenplays by Simon Raven)
David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer and Carolyn Seymour. It was adapted by Simon Raven from Giles Cooper's 1958 BBC Radio 3 radio drama Unman, Wittering and...
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sub-battalion level. "Sabre Squadron" may also refer to: a 1966 novel by Simon Raven, The Sabre Squadron; US 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, a...
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premiere but was delayed due to substandard animation. Simon adapted Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven for the third segment of the season two episode "Treehouse...
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construct, dreamed up out of literature and the contemporary French cinema." Simon Raven wrote in The Observer on 15 September 1963: "Mr. Farrell's style is spare...
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(1961–63), Some Other Guys (1963–64), Buddy Britten & The Regents renamed Simon Raven Cult (1964–66) and Johnny Kidd & the Pirates. After a few months of his...
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