David Nobbs (1935–2015)
Auteur de The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin
A propos de l'auteur
David Nobbs was born in Petts Wood, England on March 13, 1935. He graduated from St John's, Cambridge, where he studied English in 1958. He joined the Sheffield Star as an apprentice journalist, but soon realized it was not the type of writing we wanted to do. He moved to London when one of his afficher plus sketches was accepted for a revue, One to Another, at the Lyric theatre. In the 1960s, he became established as a gag writer for popular performers of the day including David Frost and Frankie Howerd. His first novel, The Itinerant Lodger, was published in 1965. His other novels included Ostrich Country, A Piece of the Sky Is Missing, The Death of Reginald Perrin, The Return of Reginald Perrin, A Bit of a Do, Cupid's Darts, and The Second Life of Sally Mottram. His Reginald Perrin novels were later adapted for television as The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which ran between 1976 and 1979. He also wrote a memoir entitled I Didn't Get Where I Am Today. He died on August 9, 2015 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de David Nobbs
The Fall and Rise Of Reginald Perrin (1975) — Auteur; Narrateur, quelques éditions — 253 exemplaires
The Life and Times of Henry Pratt: "Second from Last in the Sack Race" and "Pratt of the Argus" (1992) 11 exemplaires
GOING GENTLY. 1 exemplaire
The Book of Comedy Sketches (BENNETT) 1 exemplaire
Stalag Luft [1993 TV movie] — writer — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Nobbs, David Gordon
- Date de naissance
- 1935-03-13
- Date de décès
- 2015-08-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Orpington, Kent, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK
- Cause du décès
- complications of a stroke
- Lieux de résidence
- Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK
- Études
- Bickley Hall prep school, Chislehurst
Marlborough College
Cambridge University (St John's College|BA|1958) - Professions
- comedy writer
novelist
journalist - Relations
- Nobbs, Susan (wife)
- Organisations
- British Humanist Association
- Courte biographie
- The Guardian obituary of the comic writer David Nobbs (11 August, page 33) said he had died on 9 August. His agent has since been in touch to point out that he in fact died a day earlier, on 8 August.
Membres
Discussions
3. It Had to be You by David Nobbs à Backlisted Book Club (Mars 2022)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 30
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,325
- Popularité
- #19,400
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 20
- ISBN
- 129
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 4