Potter, Dennis (Christopher George)
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died June 7, 1994, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
British dramatist.
Educated at Oxford, he thereafter devoted himself to writing, especially of television plays. His innovative serial
Pennies from Heaven (1978) combined fantasy sequences and musical interludes in which actors lip-synched to old recordings of period songs. His best-known teleplay, the eight-part
The Singing Detective (1986), an autobiographical account of his crippling bouts of psoriatic arthropathy, combined humour,
pathos, and fantastic musical numbers. His other teleplays include the allegedly sacrilegious
Brimstone and Treacle (1976, televised 1987) and
Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His movie screenplays include
Gorky Park (1983) and
Dreamchild (1985).
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