Name
Ronald Harwood
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1934-11-09
Deathday
2020-09-08 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Cape Town, South Africa
Biography
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 (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).
Known For
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The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occ...
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes ...
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devasta...
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An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in ...
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One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of tour...
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In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy...
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Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of i...
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In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, bu...
- 2004 Mackendrick on Film as Self
- 2015 The First Film as Himself
- 2009 Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me as Self
- 2020 Investigating The Ladykillers
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
