• John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career...
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  • and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend, and murderer of playwright Joe Orton. Halliwell was born in Bebington near Liverpool. He was very close to...
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    Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980), known as Randy Orton, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on...
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  • a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears, about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The screenplay was written by Alan Bennett...
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    British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern...
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    British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern...
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  • Entertaining Mr Sloane (category Plays by Joe Orton)
    Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964...
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  • Loot (play) (category Plays by Joe Orton)
    Loot is a two-act play by the English playwright Joe Orton. The play is a dark farce that satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death...
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    In English literature, she is known for her work on the British writer Joe Orton; she edited several of his early novels and plays for their first publication...
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    Title Role Venue 1998 Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs Joe Orton Hampstead Theatre 2005 Guys and Dolls Sky Masterson Piccadilly Theatre...
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  • Up Against It (category Plays by Joe Orton)
    Against It is an unproduced script by Joe Orton, written in 1967 for the Beatles at the height of their fame. Orton's screenplay was a revised version of...
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    indecent assault. After the murder of playwright Joe Orton by his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell in 1967, Orton's diaries were published and included explicit...
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    Roberts and Joe Orton's sister Leonine Orton Barnet. The second is at the Little Theatre in Orton's hometown on the anniversary of Orton's death on 9 August...
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    (2017) directed by Guy Ritchie. Fox played key scenes as Mr. Sloane in Joe Orton Laid Bare, voiced a character/s in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, and voiced...
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  • Entertaining Mr Sloane, a 1964 play by Joe Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane, the 1970 film version of the play by Joe Orton Sloane (film), a 1984 action movie...
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  • screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed...
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    2006 My First Wedding Nick Goldplated Col Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Joe Orton 2007 Fairy Tales Jake 2008 Shameless Mark 1 episode; series 5 episode...
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    in Only Fools and Horses. Lyndhurst was born on 20 April 1961, to parents Joe Lyndhurst and Liz Long, and raised in Emsworth, Hampshire. His parents met...
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  • in The Sea at the same theatre. Haig's next role was Truscott in the Joe Orton black farce Loot at London's Tricycle Theatre from 11 December 2008 to...
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  • Coventry. From Coventry, she moved to Ipswich Repertory Company, where Joe Orton was a fellow ASM. Two years later, she joined a touring group, the West...
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    Pinter Gateway Theatre, Chester 1971 Entertaining Mr Sloane Mr. Sloane Joe Orton Gateway Theatre, Chester 1971 Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Performer...
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    theatre director. He was best known for his roles in the comedies of Joe Orton. He received three Tony Award nominations for his roles in the plays Spokesong...
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    George Gissing, artist Walter Sickert, playwright Joe Orton, and the author Nina Bawden. In 1967, Orton was murdered in his apartment at 25 Noel Road by...
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  • film "lethal farce, combining hints of The Lavender Hill Mob, doses of Joe Orton and a smidgen of the Farrelly brothers' scatology in its mix." He added...
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  • responsible for commissioning and directing the early plays of Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Tom Stoppard and Sue Townsend. Tydeman was the head of BBC Radio Drama...
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  • book about a British playwright, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. Lahr was portrayed in the film by Wallace Shawn. Lahr has also written...
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  • The Ruffian on the Stair (category Plays by Joe Orton)
    The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton which was first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1964, in a production by John Tydeman. It...
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    this character as the basis for belittling him. "Aunt Edna" inspired Joe Orton to create "Edna Welthorpe", a mischievous alter ego stirring up controversy...
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    with actor Ian Gelder since 1993. They met during the production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane. The couple reside in South London Daniels was...
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  • Milo O'Shea and Roy Holder. It is based on the play of the same name by Joe Orton. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. The setting is a seaside...
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