Brian clark bio

British playwright and television writer (1932–2021)

Brian Robert Clark (3 June 1932 – 16 November 2021) was a British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his play Whose Life Is It Anyway?, which he later adapted into a screenplay.

Brian clark bio

Early life

Clark was born on 3 June 1932 in Bristol, United Kingdom, the son of a blacksmith.^[1]

He attended Bristol Grammar School, leaving at 16.^[2] Clark was educated at the University of Nottingham.

He married Maggie Clark, his first wife, and raised two sons.

Career

Clark taught in schools, colleges and universities and was a member of the Drama Department at the University of Hull from 1968 to 1972.

In 1970, he sold a television play, Rubber? Some years after its television production, he adapted the script for the stage. The reworked version won a Society of West End Theaters Award in 1978. Later that year, he brought the play to the United States, first at the Folger in Washin