Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry ( born December 18, 1907 in Bristol as Christopher Harris, † 30 June 2005 in Chichester ) was a British novelist and playwright.
Life
The son of a missionary preacher and architect worked as a teacher. In 1927, he appeared as an actor and director of a theater group in Bath. Although the teaching profession took up a short time later, the theater would not let him go. In the early 1930s he led in turn as a director, a small theater group and was a theater critic. At the same time he began with the drafting of their own songs. In addition, he translated pieces by Jean Anouilh and Jean Giraudoux.
Fry is known primarily for his witty Verskomödien in which he similarly Anouilh and TS Eliot combines playfulness with shrewd observation of human existence. Among his most famous works include A Phoenix too much, a modern reception of the traveling saga of the widow of Ephesus, The Lady is not for Burning and Venus in the light.
In addition, Fry also worked as a screenwriter and co-authored with Karl Tunberg, Maxwell Anderson and Gore Vidal the screenplay for the adaptation of Lewis Wallace's Ben Hur (1959, directed by William Wyler ). Unlike Tunberg Anderson, Vidal and Fry, however, remained unnamed in the credits. Also for the screenplays of the epic production Barabbas ( Director: Richard Fleischer ) and John Huston's film version drew elaborate Bible - Fry partly responsible.