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A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British historical drama film directed and produced by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Robert Bolt from his play of the same name.It depicts the final years of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Chancellor of England who refused both to sign a letter asking Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII of England's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to take an Oath of ...
A Man for All Seasons, a 1960 play by Robert Bolt; A Man for All Seasons (1964 TV film), an Australian adaptation of Bolt's play; A Man for All Seasons, a British adaptation of the play; A Man for All Seasons, an American television adaptation of the play
A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt based on the life of Sir Thomas More.An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, [1] but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage.
A Man for All Seasons is a 1964 Australian television play. It is an adaptation of the play by Robert Bolt. [4]It was directed by William Sterling who thought the play was "the finest in construction and conception on the large heroic scale to come out of England since the War.
A Man for All Seasons is a 1988 American made-for-television drama film about St. Thomas More, directed by and starring Charlton Heston.It is based on the play of the same name by Robert Bolt, which was previously adapted in the Academy Award winning 1966 film A Man for All Seasons.
Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 20 February 1995) was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Notable film roles included Maurice Braithwaite in This Sporting Life (1963), Vahlin in The Long Ships (1964), Sir Thomas More's house servant Matthew in A Man for All Seasons (1966), Dr. Watson to Robert Stephens's Holmes in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), and Joseph Stalin in Jack Gold's Red Monarch (1983).
A Man for All Seasons – Robert Bolt based on his play‡ Alfie – Bill Naughton based on his play The Professionals – Richard Brooks based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke