John Osborne
John Osborne, (1929-94). British dramatist. After leaving .university he worked for a time as an actor. His first play, Look Back in Anger (1956), depicts a dissatisfied young man rebelling against social privilege. It was the first of a number of plays written in the 1950s, whose authors were nicknamed ‘angry young men’. Several notable English actors starred in Osborne’s subsequent plays: Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (1957), Albert Finney in Luther (1961), Nicol Williamson in Inadmissable Evidence (1964), and Paul Scofield in The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968). His last play, written after a long interval, was Deja Vu (1992). He also wrote an Oscar-winning script for the film Tom Jones (1963) and two bitter volumes of autobiography (1981, 1991).
