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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 television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). [1]
Dennis Potter. Writer: Gorky Park. Dennis Christopher George Potter was born 17 May 1935 in Berry Hill, a small village in the Forest of Dean, where his grandfather and father were coal miners.
Feb 17, 2009 · David Potter's gripping, enigmatic writing for TV made him one of British culture's defining figures from the 1960s through the 1980s. Critic-at-large John Powers reviews the new DVD collection...
Dennis Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English dramatist with a large canon of work.
Dec 31, 2014 · Airing from March 07 - April 11, 1978 on BBC, this miniseries is one of several made by Dennis Potter to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into extended performances of popular songs.
Jun 12, 1994 · Potter, who died Tuesday at the age of 59, had devoted his professional life to television, conceiving and writing a series of brilliant, quirky, sometimes bitterly controversial series for...
Jun 8, 1994 · Dennis Potter, the caustic and controversial writer of the innovative British television dramas "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies from Heaven," died yesterday at his home...
