Robert Bolt

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 - 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar winning screenwriter. He was born in Sale , Cheshire. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed.

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...Mantel's spirited novel, Wolf Hall, which just won this year's Man Booker Prize, we meet a Cromwell quite unlike the one in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons or even Showtime's The Tudors. He's not only sympathetic, but a principled...

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...Machiavellian manipulator. His sinister reputation was reinforced by Cromwell's villainous depiction in "A Man for All Seasons," Robert Bolt's 1960s play about statesman and Catholic saint Thomas More, who was executed for treason after falling...

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...to pillory, whom to send to the Tower. More and Cromwell were enemies, and history has taken More's side. Good examples are Robert Bolt's 1960 play, "A Man for All Seasons," and the 1966 movie that Fred Zinnemann based on it, both with...

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...in every church". He won that war. Famously, Wolf Hall restores the moral and artistic balance between the great rivals that Robert Bolt tilted so far towards Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. Mantel first came across the play when her...

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...of Henry VIII's chief minister Thomas Cromwell, a Tudor-era figure who is often portrayed as less than heroic (most notably in Robert Bolt's 1961 play about Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons). Mantel, a first-time Man Booker winner, collects...

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...house in Sussex. She lives nearby in an 11th century manor house. "Melvyn Bragg says it's the most beautiful house in Britain. I buried my old man [the playwright Robert Bolt] in the garden 25 years go and have lived here happily ever since."

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...here now just came to west Kerry looking for work because the film was shooting here," de Mordha says. Written by Miles's husband Robert Bolt -- the screenwriter on several of Lean's previous movies -- the film is set in that most momentous...

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...creation of a national theology. To present the novel's protagonist as a simple rebuttal of the grasping bully depicted by Robert Bolt in his play A Man For All Seasons would be too neat. Yet in restoring a balance between Thomas More and...

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...who turned in an Oscar-winning performance as the village idiot, and the Hollywood legend Robert Mitchum. It was written by Robert Bolt, who had also scripted Doctor Zhivago and A Man for All Seasons and who was married to Miles. Based on...

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