Dennis Potter
Writing
May 17, 1935
Died June 7, 1994 (59 years old)
Berry Hill, UK
7
Acting Credits
3
Directed
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
Filmography
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020
as Self – Writer (archive footage, 1973 & 1977)
An Interview with Dennis Potter
1994
as Himself
10
Visions of Heaven and Hell
1994
as Self
9
Blackeyes
1989
as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
5.9
Television
1985
8
Blue Remembered Hills
1979
as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
7.3
Between Two Rivers
1960
as Narrator
7.4