Denis CANNAN

Born Dennis Pullein-Thompson in Oxford, 14 May 1919

Plays:

1. Max (produced 1949).
2. Captain Carvallo (produced 1950). 1952.
3. Colombe, adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh (produced 1951). 1952.
4. Misery Me! A Comedy of Woe (produced 1955). 1956.
5. You and Your Wife (produced 1955). 1956.
6. The Power and the Glory, with Pierre Bost, adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene (produced 1956). 1959; revised version (produced 1980).
7. Who's Your Father? (produced 1958). 1959.
8. US, with others (produced 1966).
9. Ghosts, adaptation of the play by Ibsen (produced 1967).
10. One at Blight (produced 1971).
11. Les Iks, with Colin Higgins, based on The Mountain People by Colin Turnbull (produced 1975; as The Ik, produced 1976). 1984.
12. Dear Daddy (produced 1976). 1978.

Screenplays:

1. The Beggar's Opera, with Christopher Fry, 1953;
2. Alive and Kicking, 1959;
3. Don't Bother to Knock (Why Bother to Knock), with Frederic Raphael and Frederic Gotfurt, 1961;
4. Tamahine, 1963;
5. Sammy Going South (A Boy Ten Feet Tall), 1963;
6. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, with Roland Kibbee, 1965;
7. A High Wind in Jamaica, with Stanley Mann and Ronald Harwood, 1965;
8. Mayerling, with Terence Young, 1968.

Radio PLays:

1. Headlong Hall, from the novel by Peacock, 1950;
2. The Moth and the Star, from Liber Amoris by Hazlitt, 1950;
3. The Greeting, from the work by Osbert Sitwell, 1964.

Television Plays:

1. Heaven and Earth, with Peter Brook, 1956;
2. One Day at a Time, 1977;
3. HomeMovies, 1979;
4. Fat Chance, from a story by Robert Bloch, 1980;
5. Picture of a Place, from a work by Doug Morgan, 1980;
6. The Best of Everything, from the novel by Stanley Ellin, 1981;
7. Way to Do It, from a work by Jack Ritchie, 1981;
8. By George!, 1982;
9. The Absence of Emily, from a work by Jack Ritchie, 1982;
10. The Memory Man, from a story by Henry Slesar, 1983;
11. The Last Bottle in the World, from a story by Stanley Ellin, 1986.