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13 unusual facts about Graham Greene


Anita Björk

After Dagerman's death in 1954, she had a relationship with author Graham Greene.

Ben Greene

He attended Berkhamsted School where his uncle, Charles Greene, was headteacher and where his cousins, Graham Greene and Hugh Greene, also attended.

Bombsite

The rubble of Viennese bombsites and the remnants of the city's battered infrastructure serve as a backdrop to much of the action in the movie The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, an author who would return to this bombsite motif again.

Buer

In Graham Greene's Brighton Rock (1938) the term "buer" appears frequently in English working-class dialogue as an unflattering reference to a woman

Genrikh Borovik

His educational program The Will of the 20th Century, in which the writer and journalist described his meetings with prominent people of the 20th century, such as Alexander Kerensky, Ernest Hemingway, Kim Philby, Konstantin Simonov, Graham Greene, Walter Cronkite, Mother Teresa and others, was highly praised by audiences and critics, and constantly enjoyed the highest rating among the programs on Culture.

Lawrence G. Green

In the formative phase of his writing career he experimented briefly with fiction writing but discarded this in favour of travelogues and other non-fiction, claiming to have little of value to offer the reader in the former genre even though an admirer of novelists such as Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene and W. Somerset Maugham.

Now My Heart Is Full

Critics have suggested the song's refrain of "Dallow, Spicer, Pinkie, Cubitt" addresses the gangsters from Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock and so has a thematic link with Morrissey's 1989 song

Peru Support Group

Other notable sponsors of the organisation included renowned British writers Harold Pinter and Graham Greene.

Political thriller

Graham Greene's The Quiet American (1955) tells about the American involvement in Vietnam during the First Indochina War.

Seggiano

The Castle, which shows signs of restructuring the Renaissance, is home to a renowned farm owned by the heirs of British writer Graham Greene.

Stackpole Books

These "Superior Reprints" complemented the ASE titles and leaned toward mystery and detective fiction, including such works as Graham Greene's This Gun for Hire, Liam O'Flaherty's The Informer, and Frank Gruber's The Mighty Blockhead.

The Adventures of Dudley the Dragon

Graham Greene as "M. Pommier-Grognan" ("Mr. Crabby Tree", performance only)

In addition, most of the Canadian guest stars on the show were replaced by French celebrities, with the exception of Graham Greene, who continued to portray "Mr. Crabby Tree" (with his voiced dubbed by a French actor).


A Widow for One Year

Ruth is a fan of Graham Greene (she even names her son "Graham" after him), and in the novel reads The Life of Graham Greene by Norman Sherry.

Bijou Theatre

It was one of three theatres which hosted the premiere season of the musical Fancy Free, but primarily it presented plays by many writers including Sacha Guitry, John Galsworthy, A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Leslie Howard, Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Luigi Pirandello, Graham Greene, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan and Sean O’Casey.

Bolenge

This mission was the site of a large leprsarium and is reportedly where the British author Graham Greene spent time in gathering material for his novel A Burnt-Out Case, which is set at Iyonda in the 1950s.

Dinh Q. Lê

One being an anonymous black-and-white photo of a woman from the 1960s are woven into the leading actress in the Graham Greene film The Quiet American.

El Toboso

The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest (supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

Henry Hawley Smart

The Great Tontine (1881) was republished in 1984 in an anthology of four novels entitled Victorian Villainies, edited by Graham Greene with an introduction by his brother Hugh Greene.

Hotel Oloffson

The hotel was the real-life inspiration for the fictional Hotel Trianon in Graham Greene's famous 1966 novel The Comedians.

Ist das Ihr Fahrrad, Mr. O'Brien?

In the play, a number of writers, historic, literary or public figures, and scientists are mentioned to illustrate O’Nolan’s colorful and over-populated universe, such as Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, James Joyce, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Harry Rowohlt, Homer, Jonathan Swift, George Bernhard Shaw, the Marx Brothers, Brendan Behan, Éamon de Valera, Karl Kraus, Sherlock Holmes, and Erwin Schrödinger.

Jack Higgins

Its plot (concerned with a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill) was fresh and innovative (although the plot is clearly reminiscent of Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime film Went the Day Well?, which itself was directly based on the 1942 Graham Greene short story The Lieutenant Died Last), and the characters had significantly more depth than in his earlier work.

John Heilpern

He began his career at The Observer of London, where his interviews with numerous cultural figures (including Graham Greene, Rudolf Nureyev, Henry Moore, Artur Rubinstein, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson) received a British Press Award.

Jon Øigarden

Among the plays he has acted in is Mirandolina by Carlo Goldoni and an adaptation of Graham Greene's Travels with My Aunt, and he has had roles in such movies as Detektor (2000) and the comedy Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced (2000).

Ken Whitmore

Whitmore’s adaptations for radio are Going Under from the novel by the Russian Lydia Chukovskaya, a five-part adaptation of Brighton Rock by Graham Greene, and an eight-part adaptation of Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring.

Lesley Storm

She also wrote several screenplays, including The Heart of the Matter (1953), based on the novel by Graham Greene, and The Spanish Gardener, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by A.J. Cronin.

Mark Lawson

He has written several radio plays for the network, including St Graham and St Evelyn (2003) on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's unsuccessful litigation against the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain.

Ministry of Fear

Based on a novel by Graham Greene, the film tells the story of a man just released from a mental asylum who finds himself caught up in an international spy ring and pursued by foreign agents after inadvertently receiving something they want.

Paul Hogarth

As an illustrator he studied under James Boswell, and worked with a number of eminent authors, including Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Brendan Behan, Lawrence Durrell, and William Golding.

Raymond Greene

Charles Raymond Greene (17 April 1901 – 1982) was a Doctor of Medicine and mountaineer, brother of the novelist Graham Greene and the broadcaster Hugh Greene.

Rick Green

His material has been performed by talented actors such as Jim Carrey, Gordon Pinsent, David Steinberg, Graham Chapman, Colin Mochrie, Graham Greene, Eric Stoltz, and Martin Short.

The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour

It also regularly featured short guest spots on the "What Else Do you Do (When You're Not Being Famous)?" which featured interviews with the likes of Tomson Highway, Laura Vinson, Graham Greene and an actor playing Louis Riel.

The Human Factor

The Human Factor (ISBN 0-679-40992-0) is an espionage novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1978 and adapted into a 1979 film, directed by Otto Preminger using a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.

The Seven Storey Mountain

In the summer of 1948, advance proofs were sent to Evelyn Waugh, Clare Boothe Luce, Graham Greene and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

One printing bears this accolade on the cover, from Graham Greene: "It is a rare pleasure to read an autobiography with a pattern and meaning valid for us all. The Seven Storey Mountain is a book one reads with a pencil so as to make it one's own." Evelyn Waugh also greatly (although not uncritically) admired the book and its author.

There Ain't No Justice

However, the author Graham Greene, having praised the previous years James Curtis adaptation (They Drive by Night), was not convinced.

Tim Butcher

Butcher's second major work, Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit, describes a 350 mile trek through Sierra Leone and Liberia following a trail blazed by Graham Greene and recounted in Greene's Journey Without Maps, published in 1936.