| 词条 | Ray Cooney |
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| name = Ray Cooney | image_size = 180px | birth_name = Raymond George Alfred Cooney | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1932|05|30}} | birth_place = London, England | occupation = Playwright, actor | notableworks = Run for Your Wife | spouse = Linda Cooney (m. 1962) }}Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy.[1] He has had 17 of his plays performed there.[2] CareerCooney began to act in 1946, appearing in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was during this time that he co-wrote his first play, One For The Pot. With Tony Hilton, he co-wrote the screenplay for the British comedy film What a Carve Up! (1961), which features Sid James and Kenneth Connor. In 1968 and 1969, Cooney adapted Richard Gordon's Doctor novels for BBC radio, as series starring Richard Briers. He also took parts in them. Cooney has also appeared on TV and in several films, including a film adaptation of his successful theatrical farce Not Now, Darling (1973), which he co-wrote with John Chapman. In 1983, Cooney created the Theatre of Comedy Company and became its artistic director. During his tenure the company produced over twenty plays such as Pygmalion (starring Peter O'Toole and John Thaw), Loot and Run For Your Wife. He co-wrote a farce with his son Michael, Tom, Dick and Harry (1993). Cooney produced and directed the film Run For Your Wife (2012), based on his own play.[3] Cooney's farces combine a traditional British bawdiness with structural complication, as characters leap to assumptions, are forced to pretend to be things that they are not, and often talk at cross-purposes. He is greatly admired in France where he is known as "Le Feydeau Anglais", ("The English Feydeau"), in reference to the French farceur Georges Feydeau. In January 1975, Cooney was the subject of This Is Your Life when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at London's Savoy Hotel. In 2005, Cooney was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama.[4] Personal lifeCooney married Linda Dixon in 1962. One of their two sons, Michael, is a screenwriter.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} Bibliography
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References1. ^{{cite web |author= |title=Artist: Ray Cooney |url=http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1227 | publisher=Art & Culture |year=2009 |accessdate=2009-02-03}} 2. ^{{cite news |author= |title=In the Farce Lane |url=http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/026_RayCooney.html |work=UK Writer |publisher=Writers' Guild of Great Britain |date=Spring 2005 |accessdate=2009-02-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090206101903/http://writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/026_RayCooney.html |archivedate=6 February 2009 |df=dmy-all}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.runforyourwife.co.uk/Run_For_Your_Wife/Run_For_Your_Wife.html |title=Run For Your Wife |publisher=Run For Your Wife |date= |accessdate=2011-12-31}} 4. ^{{cite news |author= |title=Dramatist Cooney becomes an OBE |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4135823.stm |work=BBC News |date=31 December 2004 |accessdate=2009-02-03}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.pmpnetwork.com/ReviewsData/theatre-recent2.htm|title=Reviews - archive|publisher=}} External links
12 : 1932 births|Living people|English dramatists and playwrights|English male film actors|English male stage actors|English male television actors|Laurence Olivier Award winners|Plays by Ray Cooney|Place of birth missing (living people)|People educated at Alleyn's School|English male dramatists and playwrights|Officers of the Order of the British Empire |
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