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===Films and Plays for Television=== |
===Films and Plays for Television=== |
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* ''[[Stand By Your Screen]]'' |
* ''[[Stand By Your Screen]]'' |
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* ''[[Goodnight Albert]]'' |
* ''[[Goodnight Albert]]'' |
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* ''[[Horace (television play)|Horace]]'' |
* ''[[Horace (television play)|Horace]]'' |
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* ''[[Horace (tv series)]]'' 6 x 30-minute plays for [[Yorkshire Television]] based on the original BBC film. |
* ''[[Horace (tv series)]]'' 6 x 30-minute plays for [[Yorkshire Television]] based on the original BBC film. |
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* ''[[Funny Farm (play)|Funny Farm]]'' |
* ''[[Funny Farm (play)|Funny Farm]]'' |
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== Personal life == |
== Personal life == |
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Minton lives in [[north London]] and continues to write novels, scripts and plays. He is currently working on his [[autobiography]]. |
Minton lives in [[north London]] and continues to write novels, scripts and plays. He is currently working on his [[autobiography]]. |
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==Awards== |
==Awards== |
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*[[Arts Council Award]] |
*[[Arts Council Award]] |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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*[http://royminton.blogspot.com/ Roy Minton’s Blog.] |
*[http://royminton.blogspot.com/ Roy Minton’s Blog.] |
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*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591736/ IMDB entry for Roy Minton.] |
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0591736/ IMDB entry for Roy Minton.] |
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*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439310/index.html Scum (TV drama)] at the [[British Film Institute|BFI]]'s [[Screenonline]] |
*[http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439310/index.html Scum (TV drama)] at the [[British Film Institute|BFI]]'s [[Screenonline]] |
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*{{imdb title|id=0079871|title=Scum}} |
*{{imdb title|id=0079871|title=Scum}} |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:English dramatists and playwrights]] |
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Revision as of 07:32, 5 March 2012
Roy Minton (born, in Nottingham, England) is an English playwright best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke. He is notable for having written over 30 one-off scripts for London Weekend Television, Rediffusion, BBC, ATV, Granada, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television, including Sling Your Hook, Horace, Funny Farm, Scum, Goodnight Albert, and The Hunting of Albert Crane.
He has translated and performed several of his plays overseas and at festivals in the UK, including a reading of his play for Scum at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London; and Gradual Decline at the Riverside Studios London.
Minton also wrote the screenplay for Scrubbers, a film from which he disassociates himself totally. During his absence overseas, he felt the original screenplay had been “savaged” and describes the final production as “...arguably the worst film ever made.”
Background
Born in Nottingham England, Minton won a two-year scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. He worked as an actor prior to writing full time. He was winner of a BBC playwriting competition, received the Art Council Award and was resident dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse.
Works
Stage Plays
Feature Films
Radio Plays
- Working Weekend BBC
- A Kiss on the Peke Radio Telefís Éireann, Dublin.
- The Gold Medallist BBC
Films and Plays for Television
- Stand By Your Screen
- Goodnight Albert
- Horace
- Horace (tv series) 6 x 30-minute plays for Yorkshire Television based on the original BBC film.
- Funny Farm
- Scum
- Fast Hands
Further reading
- Bovver One-act play. Prompt Series, Hutchinson.
- Scum Novel adapted from the film script. Hutchinson/Arrow Books
Personal life
Minton lives in north London and continues to write novels, scripts and plays. He is currently working on his autobiography.