Dennis Potter
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Dennis Potter
Biography
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 TV serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and the television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. Born in Gloucestershire and graduating from Oxford University, Potter initially wo...
Acting
1994
as Himself
1994
as Self
Production
1983
as Screenplay
1985
as Writer
1988
as Writer
1981
as Writer
1982
as Screenplay
1980
as Writer
1970
as Writer
1980
as Writer
1980
as Writer
1969
as Writer
1974
as Writer
1987
as Writer
1991
as Director
1976
as Writer
1994
as Writer
1971
as Writer
1969
as Writer
1972
as Writer
1976
as Writer
1971
as Writer
2003
as Screenplay
1966
as Writer
1970
as Writer
1987
as Writer
1994
as Writer
1966
as Writer
1979
as Writer
1974
as Writer
1968
as Writer
1973
as Writer
1960
as Director
1965
as Writer
1994
as Writer
1965
as Writer
1968
as Writer
1965
as Screenplay
1985
as Executive Producer
1982
as Original Story
1968
as Writer
1991
as Novel
1991
as Screenplay
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