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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.
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...
Apr 24, 2024 · Moonlight on the Highway (Dennis Potter ITV-1969) Tirdad Derakhshani. •. 22K views • 5 years ago. •. 2. 1:12:51.
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.
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.
Dennis Potter was one of the most important creative figures in the history of British television. From 1965 until his death in 1994, he constructed a personal body of work of such remarkable depth and range that has yet to be matched in the TV medium.
Jun 5, 2014 · Television without pity: Dennis Potter’s TV criticism. Not just Britain’s greatest TV writer, Dennis Potter also worked for years as a TV critic, earning the reputation of a hellfire preacher who was as passionate damning the witless as he was singing the praises of some surprising favourites.
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...
Jun 7, 1994 · Dennis Potter died yesterday of cancer, aged 59 - the exact contemporary of so many of those television dramatists who served a joyous apprenticeship in the Sixties and Seventies. He...
