Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 - 29 October 2006) was a Manx writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay. Predominantly a writer of thrillers which used science-fiction and horror elements, … Wikipedia
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Time Shift looks at the career of the pioneering writer who brought science fiction to British TV www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/nigel-kneal...
Nigel Kneale has stated on many occasions that he is not a science-fiction writer, but a drama writer who uses science-fiction as a vehicle for his plays and serials. www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/8504/kneal.htm
Nigel and Judith have a daughter and a son Wrote the original script for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), but had his name removed from the film after the script was heavily changed by director Tommy Lee Wallace. Son is Matthew Kneale, author of www.imdb.com/name/nm0460600/
If you had to compile a shortlist of British television drama's most influential figures, Nigel Kneale would undoubtedly figure near the top. A successful and critically acclaimed short story writer, Kneale was one of the first people to recognize the po www.offthetelly.co.uk/interviews/nigelkneale.htm
