J. B. Priestley

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-09-13 (90 years old)

Deathday

1984-08-14

Place of Birth

Bradford, England

J. B. Priestley

Biography

John Boynton Priestley OM was an English novelist, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and social commentator. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future.

Production

1963

1950

Last Holiday

as Writer

1979

31st of June

as Novel

1960

Poklad

as Theatre Play

1934

Sing As We Go

as Writer

1943

1938

1987

1949

1951

1957

1972

1934

Dangerous Corner

as Theatre Play

1965

2010

1936

Laburnum Grove

as Theatre Play

1940

1939

Jamaica Inn

as Additional Dialogue

1932

1935

Look Up and Laugh

as Screenplay

1957

1977

The Golden Fleece

as Theatre Play

1950

Last Holiday

as Producer

1979

1994

A Summer Day's Dream

as Theatre Play

1971

A Severed Head

as Theatre Play

1964

1949

1965

Johnson Over Jordan

as Original Story

1944

They Came to a City

as Theatre Play

1959

1966

Level Seven

as Adaptation

2025

Nocturne

as Original Concept

1954

2015

An Inspector Calls

as Theatre Play

1984

Time and the Conways

as Theatre Play

1983

1954

An Inspector Calls

as Theatre Play

1973

He Came

as Writer

2015

An Inspector Calls

as Original Story

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