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Alan Charles Langley Hackney (10 September 1924, Manchester – 15 May 2009, Hertfordshire) was an English novelist and screenwriter.
May 19, 2009 · Alan Hackney, who died on May 15 aged 84, wrote some 30 screenplays, countless television scripts, half a dozen novels – including an international best-seller – and contributed comic pieces ...
Alan Hackney. Writer. 9 September 1924 to 14 May 2009. Adapting two of his novels for the screen, Hackney caught the mood of post-war iconoclasm with Private’s Progress (1956) and I’m Alright Jack (1959).
Alan Hackney began his creative life as a contributor to Punch and a novelist, but it was the conversion of his early works into films that transformed him into a screenwriter of some thirty movie scripts and countless TV programmes.
Alan Charles Langley Hackney (10 September 1924, Manchester – 15 May 2009, Hertfordshire) was an English novelist and screenwriter. Biography. He was educated at Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, and later, while at Manchester University, was called up to the army.
Alan Hackney was born on 10 September 1924 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for I'm All Right Jack (1959), K2 + 1 (1971) and Strictly T-T (1956). He was married to Margaret Bartlett. He died on 15 May 2009 in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
Alan Hackney. After an undistinguished career at Oxford, Stanley Windrush wanders from one escapade to another in the world of paid employment. The unwitting cause of an international furore in his indefinable role at the Foreign Office, he soon loses more jobs in the world of industry.
