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Personal info
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- 1/1/1933
- Birthplace
- Leicester - England - UK
- Died
- 8/9/1967 (aged 34)
- Gender
- Male
Biography
John Kingsley Orton, known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in 1967 by his partner, was short but highly influential. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies.
11 titles
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
1970
Theatre Play
Loot
1970
Theatre Play
What the Butler Saw
1987
Writer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Writer
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Writer
Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)
2017
Writer
Funeral Games
1968
Writer
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
1968
Writer
Theatre Night
1985TV
Theatre Play
What the Butler Saw
1983
Theatre Play
The Ruffian on the Stair
1973
Writer
