Dennis Potter

ActorWriterProducerDirector May 17 (died age 59) Berry Hill, UK 1960–2020 (60 year career)

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Biography

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC TV serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and the television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influenti…

Known For

Film

Gorky Park

Screenplay

Film

Pennies from Heaven

Writer

Film

The Singing Detective

Writer

Film

The Singing Detective

Screenplay

Film

Dreamchild

Executive Producer

Film

Lipstick on Your Collar

Executive Producer

Film

Pennies from Heaven

Writer

Film

Cold Lazarus

Writer

Filmography

Acting (6)

Movies (5)

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

2020

as Self – Writer (archive footage, 1973 & 1977)

Visions of Heaven and Hell

1994

as Self

An Interview with Dennis Potter

1994

as Himself

Blue Remembered Hills

1979

as Narrator (voice, uncredited)

6.5

Between Two Rivers

1960

as Narrator

7.2

Television (1)

Blackeyes

1989

as Narrator (voice, uncredited)

5.5

Crew (74)

Movies (46)

The Singing Detective

2003

Screenplay

5.0

The Bittersweet

2000

Theatre Play

The Bittersweet

2000

Writer

Message for Posterity

1994

Writer

Mesmer

Writer

Midnight Movie

Producer

Midnight Movie

Writer

Secret Friends

Director

Secret Friends

Novel

Secret Friends

Screenplay

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

1991

Writer

Track 29

Writer

Visitors

Writer

Brimstone and Treacle

Writer

Dreamchild

Executive Producer

Dreamchild

Writer

Gorky Park

Screenplay

Brimstone & Treacle

Original Story

Brimstone & Treacle

Screenplay

Pennies from Heaven

Writer

Cream in My Coffee

Writer

Rain on the Roof

Writer

Blade on the Feather

Writer

Blue Remembered Hills

1979

Writer

6.5

Double Dare

1976

Writer

Where Adam Stood

1976

Writer

6.2

Schmoedipus

1974

Writer

Joe's Ark

1974

Writer

Only Make Believe

1973

Writer

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

1972

Writer

Traitor

1971

Writer

7.5

Paper Roses

1971

Writer

Lay Down Your Arms

1970

Writer

6.0

Angels Are So Few

1970

Writer

Moonlight on the Highway

1969

Writer

4.0

Son of Man

1969

Writer

A Beast with Two Backs

1968

Writer

The Bone Grinder

1968

Writer

Shaggy Dog

1968

Writer

6.0

Emergency Ward 9

1966

Writer

Where the Buffalo Roam

1966

Writer

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

1965

Writer

Alice

1965

Screenplay

5.0

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

Writer

Between Two Rivers

Director

Between Two Rivers

Writer

Television (28)

Karaoke

Writer

Cold Lazarus

Writer

Lipstick on Your Collar

1993

Executive Producer

6.9

Lipstick on Your Collar

Writer

Performance

Writer

Blackeyes

Director

Blackeyes

Novel

Blackeyes

Screenplay

Blackeyes

Writer

Christabel

Writer

The Singing Detective

Writer

Screen Two

Writer

Tender Is the Night

Writer

The Mayor of Casterbridge

1978

Screenplay

5.7

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Writer

Pennies from Heaven

Writer

Late Call

Writer

Wessex Tales

Screenplay

Wessex Tales

Writer

The Sextet

Writer

Casanova

Writer

Play for Today

Writer

The Company of Five

Writer

ITV Playhouse

Writer

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Writer

The Wednesday Play

Writer

Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life

1964

Writer

That Was The Week That Was

1962

Writer

8.0