Search results
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). [1]
Dennis Potter. Writer: Gorky Park. Dennis Christopher George Potter was born 17 May 1935 in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean, where his grandfather and father were coal miners.
- January 1, 1
- Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Ross-on-Wye, England, UK
Jun 11, 2024 · Moonlight on the Highway (Dennis Potter ITV-1969) Tirdad Derakhshani. •. 22K views • 5 years ago. •. 2.
Jun 8, 1994 · Dennis Potter, the caustic and controversial writer of the innovative British television dramas "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven," died yesterday at his home...
Jun 26, 2024 · Dennis Christopher George Potter was born in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean on May 17, 1935, a son to local coal miner Walter Potter (1906-75) and Londoner Margaret née Wale (1910-2001). His grandfather had also been a miner.
Feb 17, 2009 · David Potter's gripping, enigmatic writing for TV made him one of British culture's defining figures from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Jun 12, 1994 · Potter, who died Tuesday at the age of 59, had devoted his professional life to television, conceiving and writing a series of brilliant, quirky, sometimes bitterly controversial...
