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South African dramatist and playwright
Sir Ronald Harwood CBE FRSL né Horwitz ; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser The Pianist Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay . He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Early life and career [ edit ]
Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town , in what was then the Union of South Africa , the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz.[1] Sea Point High School ,[2] [3]
After training for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit . From 1953 to 1958, Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. He would later draw on this experience when he wrote the stage play, The Dresser Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His life and work in the Unfashionable Theatre . In 1959, after leaving the Donald Wolfit Company, he joined the 59 Theatre Company for a season at the Lyric Hammersmith during which time he played the role of Pablo both in the stage debut of Alun Owen 's play The Rough and Ready Lot and in its 1959 television adaptation.[4] [5]
In 1960, Harwood began a career as a writer and published his first novel, All the Same Shadows in 1961, the screenplay for Private Potter March Hares in 1964. Harwood continued at a prolific pace penning more than 21 stage plays, and 10 books. He also created more than 16 screen plays, but seldom wrote original material directly for the screen, usually acting as an adapter, sometimes of his own work (The Dresser ).
One of the recurring themes in Harwood's work was his fascination with the stage, its performing artists and artisans, as displayed in The Dresser , After the Lions (about Sarah Bernhardt ), Another Time (a semi-autobiographical piece about a gifted South African pianist), Quartet All the World's a Stage , a general history of theatre.
Harwood also had a strong interest in the Nazi period, especially the situation of individuals who either voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis or, alternatively, who faced strong pressure to do so and had, in each case, to work out their own personal combination of resistance, deception and compromise. His work focusing on this period includes the films Operation Daybreak Czechoslovakian Resistance of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich ), The Statement Paul Touvier ), The Pianist an adaptation of the autobiography of the Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman covering his survival during the Nazi occupation of Poland ), the play later adapted to film Taking Sides Wilhelm Furtwängler ), the play Collaboration Richard Strauss and his partnership with the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig ), and the play An English Tragedy (dealing with the British fascist John Amery ).[6] [7]
Harwood also wrote the screenplay for the films The Browning Version Being Julia Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons , and Roman Polanski 's version of Oliver Twist Ben Kingsley .
He won an Academy Award for the script of The Pianist The Dresser Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2007 for his adaptation of the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby , The Diving Bell and the Butterfly BAFTA and the Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario in 2008, for Best Adaptation. In 2008, Harwood was also awarded the Humanitas Award in recognition of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly .
Recognition [ edit ]
Harwood was president of the English PEN Club from 1989 to 1993, and of PEN International from 1993 to 1997. He was chairman of the Royal Society of Literature from 2001 to 2004, and was president of the Royal Literary Fund from 2005. He was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1974, Knight (Chevalier) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1996, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1999.
In 2003, he was appointed a member at the Department of Language and Literature of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . He was awarded a DLitt degree from Keele University in 2002,[8] Doctor Honoris Causa from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (Sofia , Bulgaria) in 2007, made an Honorary Fellow of the Central School of Speech and Drama (London, England) in 2007, and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Chichester in 2009. Harwood was knighted in the 2010 Birthday Honours .[9]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1173/02) with Harwood in 2005–2007 for its An Oral History of Theatre Design collection held by the British Library .[10] [11]
He was named chairman of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford in 2008. In June 2013, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen by the Duchess of Rothesay .[12]
In May 2017 an authorized biography of Harwood, Speak Well of Me by W. Sydney Robinson , was published by Oberon Books.
Personal life [ edit ]
He attended the Seapoint Boys' High School in that area of Cape Town. He moved to England in 1951. In 1959, he married Natasha Riehle (1938–2013), a descendant of Russian nobility. They had three children: Antony (born 1960), Deborah (born 1963), and the composer Alexandra Harwood (born 1966).[13]
The actor Sir Antony Sher was his first cousin, once removed.[14] [15]
Harwood died from natural causes at his home in Sussex on 8 September 2020, at age 85.[16] [17]
Bibliography [ edit ]
Stage plays [ edit ]
March Hares (Liverpool, 1964)
Country Matters (69 Theatre Company, Manchester , 1969)
The Good Companions André Previn and Johnny Mercer ), libretto (Her Majesty's Theatre , 1974)
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Evelyn Waugh 's novel (Royal Exchange Theatre , Manchester and the Round House , London, 1977,
A Family (Royal Exchange Theatre , Manchester and the Theatre Royal, Haymarket , 1978)
The Dresser Royal Exchange , Manchester and Queen's Theatre , 1980; Duke of York's Theatre , 2005)[18]
After the Lions (The Royal Exchange , Manchester , 1982)
Tramway Road (Lyric Hammersmith ,1984)
The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest (Almeida Theatre , 1985)
Interpreters (Queen's Theatre, 1985)
J J Farr (Theatre Royal, Bath and Phoenix Theatre , 1987)
Ivanov Chekhov 's play (Strand Theatre ,1989)
Another Time (Bath and Wyndham's Theatre ,1989)
Reflected Glory (Darlington and Vaudeville Theatre , 1992)
Poison Pen , about the death of composer Peter Warlock (the Royal Exchange , Manchester, 1993))
Taking Sides Wilhelm Furtwängler (Minerva Theatre, Chichester ,1995 and 2008; Duchess Theatre , 2009)
The Handyman (Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 1996)
Quartet Albery Theatre , 1999)
Goodbye Kiss/Guests , double bill about the South African diaspora (Orange Tree Theatre , 2000)
Mahler's Conversion (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre , Guildford and Aldwych Theatre , 2001)
See U Next Tuesday , adaptation of Francis Veber 's Diner de Cons (Gate Theatre, Dublin, 2002 and Albery Theatre, 2003)
An English Tragedy , based on the true story of the British fascist John Amery (Palace Theatre Watford , 2008)
Collaboration , based on the relationship between the composer Richard Strauss and the writer Stefan Zweig (Minerva Theatre, Chichester , 2008; Duchess Theatre , 2009)
Taking Tea With Stalin [dubious discuss
Screenplays [ edit ]
Private Potter
The Barber of Stamford Hill
A High Wind in Jamaica A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes )
Drop Dead Darling The Careful Man by Richard Deming )
Diamonds for Breakfast
Eyewitness The Eyewitness by Mark Hebden )
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn )
Operation Daybreak Seven Men at Daybreak by Alan Burgess )
Tales of the Unexpected
Evita Peron (1981, television film, based on the non-fiction-books Evita, First Lady by John Barnes, and Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron by Nicholas Fraser)
The Dresser
The Doctor and the Devils Dylan Thomas )
Mandela
Countdown to War
A Fine Romance Tchin-Tchin by François Billetdoux )
The Browning Version The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan )
Cry, the Beloved Country Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton )
Taking Sides
The Pianist The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman )
The Statement The Statement by Brian Moore )
Being Julia Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham )
Oliver Twist Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens )
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby )
Love in the Time of Cholera Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez )
Australia
Quartet
Books and published works [ edit ]
All the Same Shadows (novel) Cape (1961)
George Washington September Sir! (novel) Avon (1961)
The Guilt Merchants (novel) Cape (1963) ISBN 978-0-030-81338-2
The Girl in Melanie Klein (novel) Secker & Warburg (1969) ISBN 978-0-030-76440-0
Sir Donald Wolfit: His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre (biography) Secker & Warburg (1971) ISBN 0-436-19121-0
Articles of Faith (novel – winner of the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize ) Secker & Warburg (1973) ISBN 0-436-19122-9
The Genoa Ferry (novel) Secker & Warburg (1976) ISBN 0-436-19123-7
César and Augusta (novel about the composer César Franck) Secker & Warburg (1978) ISBN 0-436-19119-9
One. Interior. Day. Adventures in the Film Trade , Secker & Warburg (1978) ISBN 0-436-19124-5
New Stories 3: An Arts Council Anthology (with Francis King) Hutchinson (1978) ISBN 0-09-133271-0
The Dresser (play) Grove Press (1981) ISBN 0-394-17936-6
A Night at the Theatre (editor), Methuen (1982) ISBN 0-413-49950-2
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (play) Amber Lane (1983) ISBN 0-906399-42-4
After the Lions (play) Amber Lane (1983) ISBN 0-906399-41-6
All the World's a Stage (theatre history), Secker & Warburg (1984) ISBN 0-436-19132-6
The Ages of Gielgud, an Actor at Eighty , Hodder & Stoughton (1984) ISBN 0-340-34828-3
Tramway Road (play) Amber Lane (1984) ISBN 0-906399-58-0
The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest (play) Amber Lane (1985) ISBN 0-906399-63-7
Interpreters (play) Amber Lane (1986) ISBN 0-906399-67-X
Mandela (a Channel Four book), Boxtree (1987) ISBN 1-85283-204-5
Dear Alec: Guinness at 75 (editor), Hodder & Stoughton (1989) ISBN 0-340-49954-0
Another Time (play) Amber Lane (1989) ISBN 0-906399-98-X
Reflected Glory (play) Faber (1992) ISBN 0-571-16463-3
Home (novel) Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1993) ISBN 0-297-81368-4
The Collected Plays of Ronald Harwood , Faber (1993) ISBN 0-571-17001-3
The Faber Book of the Theatre (editor) Faber (1994) ISBN 0-571-16481-1
Harwood Plays: Two (Contemporary Classics) , Faber (1995) ISBN 90-01-87742-7
The Handyman (play) Faber (1997) ISBN 0-571-19041-3
Quartet/Equally Divided (plays) Faber (1999) ISBN 0-571-20092-3 )
Mahler's Conversion (play) Faber (2001) ISBN 978-0-571-21231-6
The Pianist/Taking Sides (screenplays) Faber (2003) ISBN 0-571-21281-6
An English Tragedy (play) Faber (2006) ISBN 0-571-23328-7
Ronald Harwood's Adaptations: From Other Works Into Films , Guerilla Books (2007) ISBN 978-0-9554943-0-7
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Robinson, W. Sydney (1 June 2017). Speak Well of Me: The Authorised Biography of Ronald Harwood: The Authorised Biography of Ronald Harwood ISBN 9781786820440
^ Walker, Tim "In Praise of the Patriotic Playwright" Archived 19 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine , The Spectator
^ Owen, Alun (1960). The Rough and Ready Lot: A play in Three Acts . Cover design by Elisabeth Frink (First ed.). London: Encore Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 4.
^ "The Rough and Ready Lot" , Radio Times , retrieved 6 April 2016
^ Hemming, Sarah (15 February 2008). "The heart of the matter" . Financial Times . Retrieved 19 December 2022 .
^ Evening Standard review, 19 February 2008
^ "Home" . Keele University .
^ "No. 59446" . The London Gazette
^ National Life Stories, 'Harwood, Ronald (5 of 18) An Oral History of Theatre Design', The British Library Board, 2007 . Retrieved 1 February 2018
^ Ronald Harwood Papers , archives and manuscripts catalogue, the British Library. Retrieved 26 may 2020
^ "HRH The Duchess of Rothesay joins University 'family' . University of Aberdeen.
^ "Lady Harwood (1938–2013)" . Peerage News.
^ Sydney Robinson, W. (7 October 2021). Speak Well of Me: The Authorised Biography of Ronald Harwood ISBN 9781350290754
^ "Final curtain for Eve Borland – dancer, teacher, critic." (21 August 2007) The Cape Times , Cape Town
^ Singh, Anita (8 September 2020). "Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, dies at 85" The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 September 2020 .
^ Rahmad, Abid (8 September 2020). "Ronald Harwood, 'The Pianist' Screenwriter, Dies at 85" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 9 September 2020 .
^ "Stage review of the 2004-5 revival of The Dresser " .
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