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Hugh Stoddart

HUGH STODDART

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    SWA  represented by Simon Williamson

This well-established screenwriter's work includes: Begging The Ring - Grierson Award, The Trespasser starring Alan Bates, Remembrance Grand Prize, Taormina Film Festival, nominated for Best Screenplay Evening Standard Awards. Gary Oldman's first film role. To The Lighthouse nominated for BAFTA award (Best Single Drama) Michael Gough, Rosemary Harris and Kenneth Branagh in his film debut, Hard Travelling, We Think The World Of You with Alan Bates, Gary Oldman, Max Wall, The Big Battalions (1992) Brian Cox, Jane Lapotaire, The Mill On The Floss (1997), nominated Best Single Drama, Writers' Guild Awards starring Emily Watson. "To dramatise a novel which is remarkable for having no dialogue and no plot is downright quixotic, but when it comes to executing perfect swallow dives into dry sponges, nobody does it better than Hugh Stoddart" - Nancy Banks-Smith, reviewing To The Lighthouse. "Almost flawless" - David Aaronovitch (Independent on Sunday) reviewing The Mill On The Floss. Hugh also wrote a 2-part Dalziell and Pascoe episode, Dialogues With The Dead. He was commissioned to write the stageplay Barchester Towers, by Carnival Film & Drama.

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         Gibraltar Strait         Lay By

Gibraltar Strait

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Lay By

Synopsis:
Fellatio as rape gets perpetrator ten years and pregnant heroin addict victim committed to Holloway. Denouement as main characters are washed in blood and made into jam.

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written by Brenton, Clark, Griffiths, Hare, Poliakoff, Stoddart, Wilson

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Edinburgh    1971

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in "Plays & Players" Nov, 1971   -

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