Bryan Forbes - Career, External references

Actor, scriptwriter, and director, born in London, UK. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his debut in 1942. He acted on stage and in films in Britain and the USA (1948–60), and formed Beaver Films with Sir Richard Attenborough in 1959. He wrote and produced many films, including The Slipper and the Rose (1976) and International Velvet (1978). Included in the plays he has directed are Macbeth (1980) and The Living Room (1987), and his television productions include The Endless Game (1989, Channel 4). Later publications include A Divided Life (1992) and Quicksand (1996).

Bryan Forbes, CBE (born John Theobald Clark on July 22, 1926 in London) is an English film director, actor and writer.

Career

Forbes trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts but did not complete his studies.

He formed a production company with his frequent collaborator Richard Attenborough in 1959, which went on to make The Angry Silence in 1960, a screenplay by Forbes in which Attenborough took the lead role, and both shared production responsibilities. In 1964, Forbes wrote and directed Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which he won a 1965 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Foreign Film Screenplay.

In 1969 he was appointed chief of production and managing director of the film studio Associated British (EMI), but the experience was not a success and he resigned the post in 1971. Roger Moore was their best man, and the couple have two daughters: Emma Forbes and Sarah Standing (born 21 May 1959), the latter married to actor John Standing.

He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1975, though he is currently in remission, and since the early 1970s he has divided his energies between cinema, television, theatre and writing a number of successful novels and two volumes of autobiography.

In 2004, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the arts and he currently serves as president of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

External references

BFI Screenonline article Britmovie article Bryan Forbes at hollywood.com Bryan Forbes at the Internet Movie Database Bibliography of Forbes' fiction and non-fiction BBC News report on awarding of CBE