艾伦·班尼特

艾伦·贝内特（英语：Alan Bennett，1934年5月9日—）是一位英国剧作家、编剧、演员和作家。他出生在利兹，在牛津大学学习历史，并在牛津滑稽剧团演出。后来，贝内特在大学任教，同时研究中世纪历史。他与杜德利·穆尔、乔纳森·米勒和彼得·库克在1960年爱丁堡电影节讽刺电影作品中的合作使他瞬间成名。此后他放弃学业，转而从事全职写作。他的第一部戏剧在《四十年来》在1968年上映。

贝内特的作品包括《疯狂的乔治三世》及其电影改编、《头部特写》独白系列、《历史系男生》及其电影改编，以及流行的音频有声书籍，包括《爱丽丝漫游奇境记》和《小熊维尼》。

早年生活

贝内特出生在利兹的阿姆利。他的父亲沃尔特是一名合作社屠夫，母亲名叫莉莉安·玛丽。他是家中的最小的儿子。贝内特上过基督教堂、阿姆利和英格兰教会学校（和泰勒·布拉德福德同班），然后是利兹现代学校（现在是劳恩斯伍德学校）。

在申请牛津大学奖学金之前，他在语言学院联合语言学院学习俄语。后来，他被牛津大学埃克塞特学院录取，毕业后获得了一流的历史学位。在牛津的时候，他在《复仇女神》中与许多最终成功的演员一起表演喜剧。毕业后他在大学里留教了几年，研究和教授中世纪的历史，后来才认为自己不适合当一名学者。

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter. He has received numerous awards and honours including four BAFTA Awards, four Laurence Olivier Awards, and two Tony Awards. In 2005, he received the Society of London Theatre Special Award.

Bennett was born in Leeds and attended the University of Oxford, where he taught medieval history for several years. His work in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the 1960 Edinburgh Festival brought him instant fame and later a Special Tony Award. He turned to writing full time and gained acclaim with his plays at the Royal National Theatre. The following plays were adapted into films: The Madness of King George (1994), The History Boys (2006), and The Lady in the Van (2015).

Early life

Bennett was born on 9 May 1934 in Armley, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. The younger son of a Co-op butcher, Walter, and his wife, Lilian Mary (née Peel), Bennett attended Christ Church, Upper Armley, Church of England School (in the same class as Barbara Taylor Bradford), and then Leeds Modern School (now Lawnswood School). He has an older brother, Gordon, who is exactly three years older than him. Gordon is a retired airline pilot.

Bennett learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL) during his national service before applying for a scholarship at Oxford University. He was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in history. While at Oxford, he performed comedy with a number of eventually successful actors in The Oxford Revue. He remained at the university for several years, working as a junior lecturer of Medieval History at Magdalen College, before deciding in 1960 that he was not suited to being an academic.

Career

Early career

In August 1960, Bennett – along with Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook – gained fame after an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe, with the show continuing in London and New York. He also appeared in My Father Knew Lloyd George. His television comedy sketch series On the Margin (1966) was erased; the BBC re-used expensive videotape rather than keep it in the archives. However, in 2014 it was announced that audio copies of the entire series had been found.

Bennett's first stage play, Forty Years On, directed by Patrick Garland and starring John Gielgud, was produced in 1968. His second play, Getting On, also directed by Garland and starring Kenneth More, opened in 1971. This was followed by Habeas Corpus in 1973 and The Old Country in 1977, both starring Alec Guinness. Many television and radio plays followed, with screenplays, short stories, novellas, a large body of non-fictional prose, and broadcasting and many appearances as an actor.

Despite a long history with both the National Theatre and the BBC, Bennett never writes on commission, saying "I don't work on commission, I just do it on spec. If people don't want it then it's too bad."

Bennett's works for television include his first play for the medium, A Day Out in 1972, A Little Outing in 1977, Intensive Care in 1982, An Englishman Abroad in 1983, and A Question of Attribution in 1991. In 1988 Talking Heads, a series of monologues for television, was broadcast. They were later performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992. A second set of six Talking Heads followed a decade later.