Rodney ackland autobiography
- Born as Norman Ackland Bernstein in Southend, Essex, to a Jewish father from Warsaw and a non-Jewish mother, he was educated at Balham Grammar School in London.
- Rodney Ackland was born Norman Ackland Bernstein in Westcliff-on-Sea in 1908, the son of a businessman and a musical comedy star, Ada Rodney.
- Ackland also wrote numerous film scripts, collaborating with Terence Rattigan on Uncensored and Bond Street, and published an autobiography, The Celluloid.
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Rodney Ackland Biography
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(1908–90), The Old Ladies, Crime and Punishment, Strange Orchestra, Birthday, Before the Party, A Dead Secret
Britishdramatist, born in Westcliffe-on-Sea, educated at Balham Grammar School and the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. He worked as an actor while developing his craft as a playwright. His work includes adaptations, notably of Hugh Walpole'sThe Old Ladies (1935) and Dostoevsky'sCrime and Punishment (1947), as well as Strange Orchestra (1931), Birthday (1934), Before the Party (1949), A Dead Secret (1957), and other original pieces. His best-known and most frequently revived play, remains The Dark River (1938), which primarily involves the contrasting reactions of a cross-section of people—some frivolous and nostalgically concerned with the past, others rather more responsibly concerned with the present and the future—to the Spanish Civil War and the dangers posed by fascism. Because of its careful portraiture of individuals cut off in the English countryside, along with its sense tha
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Rodney Ackland
Born in Westcliffe-on-Sea, Essex, 18 May 1908. Educated at Salesian College, 1915-16; Balham Grammar School, 1916-23; Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, London. Married Mab Lonsdale (daughter of the playwright Frederick Lonsdale) in 1952 (died 1972). Salesman, Swan and Edgar, London, 1924; worked in the silks department, Stagg and Mantles, London, 1925, and in the advertising department, Vacuum Oil Company, London, 1925. Founder, with Roland Gillett, Kinsmen Pictures, 1946. Died 6 December,1991.
Stage Works
- Improper People (produced 1929). 1930.
- Marion-Ella (produced 1930).
- Dance with No Music (produced 1930). 1933.
- Strange Orchestra (produced 1931). 1932.
- Ballerina, music by Henry Sullivan, lyrics by Desmond Carter, adaptation of the novel by Eleanor Smith (produced 1933).
- Birthday (produced 1934). 1935.
- The White Guard, adaptation of a play by Michael Bulgakov (produced 1934).
- The Old Ladies, adaptation of the novel by Hugh Walpole (produced 1935; as Night in the House, produced 1935). 1935.
- Afte
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RODNEY ACKLAND
The Playwrights Database
(1908 - 1991)
Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: Eric Glass Ltd
Born in Westcliffe-on-Sea, essex, 18 May 1908. educated at Salesian College, 1915-16; Balham Grammar School, 1916-23; Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic art, London. Married Mab Lonsdale (daughter of the playwright Frederick Lonsdale) in 1952 (died 1972). Salesman, Swan and Edgar, London, 1924; worked in the silks department, Stagg and Mantles, London, 1925, and in the advertising department, Vacuum Oil Company, London, 1925. Founder, with Roland Gillett, Kinsmen Pictures, 1946. Died 6 December, 1991.Buy Plays with Doollee
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