Alun Davies Owen was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and actor, predominantly in television.
11 Facts About Alun Owen
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Alun Owen's father, Sidney Owen, was a Welshman from Dolgellau, North Wales, and his mother, Ruth, was from Holyhead, but of Irish descent.
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Alun Owen attended St Michael in the Hamlet Anglican Primary School and Oulton High School.
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Alun Owen made his feature film scriptwriting debut in 1960, penning The Criminal from a storyline originally by Jimmy Sangster.
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In 1961, Alun Owen won both the Guild of Television Producers and Directors' Writer's Award and Scriptwriter's Award.
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Alun Owen won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain 1961 Best Original Teleplay award for The Rose Affair, which in 1968 was adapted as a television opera with music by Norman Kay.
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The Beatles were keen on Alun Owen, impressed with his depiction of Liverpool in "No Trams to Lime Street"; Alun Owen spent some time associating with the band's four members to gain an ear for their characters and manners of speech.
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Alun Owen's resulting script for A Hard Day's Night earned him a nomination for the 1965 Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay.
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Alun Owen's 1974 play Lucky was a rare television representation of Britain's new multicultural reality and described a young black man's, search for identity.
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Alun Owen carried on writing for television through the 1970s and 1980s, with his final produced work being an adaptation of R F Delderfield's novel Come Home, Charlie, and Face Them for ITV in 1990.
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Alun Owen died in London in 6 December 1994 at the age of 69.