British male dramatists and playwrights

The list British male dramatists and playwrights includes Alan Cumming, Spike Milligan, T.S. Eliot, Robert Shaw and Daniel Ryan. The list consists of 304 members and 4 sublists.

English male dramatists and playwrights
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Male dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland
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Scottish male dramatists and playwrights
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Welsh male dramatists and playwrights
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Alan Cumming

Scottish actor

Overview: Alan Cumming OBE FRSE (born 27 January 1965) is a Scottish-American actor, singer, writer, filmmaker, and activist who has acted in numerous films, television shows, and plays. His London stage appearances ...

Date of birth: 27 January 1965

Age: 60

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Grant Shaffer (Married)

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Broadway actors 482T

LGBT singers from the United Kingdom 115T

21st-century Scottish comedians 22T
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Daniel Ryan

British actor

Overview: Daniel Ryan (born 1968 as Daniel O'Brien) is an English actor and writer. He is known for starring as Darren Alexander in the BBC drama comedy Linda Green, Andrew Gilligan in The Government Inspector ...

Date of birth: 1968

Age: 56

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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People from Culcheth 7T

English male Shakespearean actors 251T

Male dramatists and playwrights 1,182T
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Martin McDonagh

English screenwriter

Overview: Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is an Irish-British playwright, screenwriter, producer, and director. Born and brought up in London, the son of Irish parents, he is considered among the most ...

Date of birth: 26 March 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

Partner: Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Engaged)

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Best Original Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 37T

Filmmakers who won the Best Film BAFTA Award 95T

English male dramatists and playwrights 754T
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Spike Milligan

Irish comedian (1918–2002)

Overview: Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, poet and playwright. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, Milligan was born ...

Date of birth: 16 April 1918

Date of death: 27 February 2002

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T

20th-century memoirists 804T
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T.S. Eliot

US-born British poet (1888–1965)

Overview: Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1888

Date of death: 4 January 1965

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Converts to Anglicanism from Unitarianism 4T

Anglo-Catholic poets 6T

Nobel laureates affiliated with Missouri 35T
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Robert Shaw

English actor and novelist (1927–1978)

Overview: Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English actor, novelist, and playwright. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his role as Henry VIII in the drama film A Man ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1927

Date of death: 28 August 1978

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Male actors of Scottish descent 224T

20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 220T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T
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Gawn Grainger

British, Actor

Overview: Gawn Grainger (12 October 1937 – 17 May 2025) was a Scottish actor, playwright and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 12 October 1940

Date of death: 17 May 2025

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Partner: Zoë Wanamaker (Married)

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Male dramatists and playwrights 1,218T

British male writers 878T

Male actors from Glasgow 158T
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Jack Shepherd

British actor

Overview: Jack Shepherd (born 29 October 1940) is an English actor, playwright, theatre director, saxophone player and jazz pianist. He is known for his television roles, most notably the title role in Trevor G ...

Date of birth: 29 October 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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British male television writers 435T

English male Shakespearean actors 251T

Male screenwriters 2,358T
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W. Somerset Maugham

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

Overview: William Somerset Maugham CH ( MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the ...

Date of birth: 25 January 1874

Date of death: 15 December 1965

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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People with tuberculosis 60T

People with speech impediment 47T

19th-century British short story writers 74T
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George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

Overview: George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre ...

Date of birth: 26 July 1856

Date of death: 2 November 1950

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Irish anti-vaccination activists 3T

20th-century British screenwriters 481T

People from Portobello, Dublin 22T
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Lord Douglas

English poet and journalist (1870–1945)

Overview: Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde.

Date of birth: 22 October 1870

Date of death: 20 March 1945

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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People from Lancing, West Sussex 12T

LGBT nobility 25T

English conspiracy theorists 38T
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Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Overview: Percy Bysshe Shelley ( BISH; 4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, widely regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language ...

Date of birth: 4 August 1792

Date of death: 8 July 1822

Age: 29 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Shelley family 4T

19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T

19th-century British translators 187T
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Lawrence Durrell

Biographer; poet; playwright; novelist

Overview: Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.

Date of birth: 27 February 1912

Date of death: 7 November 1990

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Child sexual abuse in France 6T

People educated at Pancyprian Gymnasium 14T

Incestual abuse 14T
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Ben Elton

British comedian, author, playwright, actor and director

Overview: Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British comedian, author, playwright, musical librettist, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became ...

Date of birth: 3 May 1959

Age: 66

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Sophie Gare (Married)

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Ehrenberg family 9T

British male television writers 435T

21st-century English comedians 249T
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Emlyn Williams

Welsh actor

Overview: George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

Date of birth: 25 November 1905

Date of death: 25 September 1987

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century British male writers 1,407T

Welsh male dramatists and playwrights 5T

Welsh-speaking actors 66T
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William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and playwright

Overview: William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found ...

Date of birth: 13 June 1865

Date of death: 28 January 1939

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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People from West Kensington 6T

People from Sandymount 25T

20th-century Irish male writers 154T
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Harold Pinter

British playwright (1930–2008)

Overview: Harold Pinter CH CBE (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists ...

Date of birth: 10 October 1930

Date of death: 24 December 2008

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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British Ashkenazi Jews 56T

20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 245T

Best British Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 19T
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Robert Bolt

English playwright (1924–1995)

Overview: Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago ...

Date of birth: 15 August 1924

Date of death: 20 February 1995

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 220T

20th-century English male writers 1,328T

Best British Screenplay BAFTA Award winners 19T
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Mark Burgess

British musician

Overview: Mark Burgess (born 1960) is a British playwright and actor who appeared in Brookside as Gordon Collins. Burgess wrote and performed the one-man show The Man with the Golden Pen on the life of Ian Fleming ...

Date of birth: 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: British

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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British post-punk musicians 80T

English male guitarists 896T

Male bass guitarists 806T
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Lucian Msamati

Tanzanian, Actor

Overview: Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati (born 5 March 1976) is a Zimbabwean actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in theatre, film, television and radio. His notable screen roles include Salladhor ...

Date of birth: 5 March 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: Tanzanian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Actors from the London Borough of Lambeth 137T

English people of Tanzanian descent 10T

21st-century Zimbabwean male actors 12T