Nigel Kneale

Nigel Kneale

Thomas Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 – 29 October 2006) was a Manx screenwriter who wrote professionally for more than 50 years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and was twice nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay. Predominantly a writer of thrillers that used science-fiction and horror elements, he was best known for the creation of the character Professor Bernard Quatermass. Kneale wrote original scripts and successfully adapted works by writers such as George Orwell, John Osborne, H. G. Wells and Susan Hill. Kneale was most active in television, joining BBC Television in 1951; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. He wrote well-received television dramas such as The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968), The Stone Tape (1972) and Beasts (1976) in addition to the Quatermass serials. He has been described as "one of the most influential writers of the 20th century", and as "having invented popular TV". From Wikipedia

  • Title: Nigel Kneale
  • Popularity: 19.405
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1922-04-18
  • Place of Birth: Lancashire, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Thomas Nigel Kneale
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Nigel Kneale Movies

  • 2003
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    The Kneale Tapes

    The Kneale Tapes

    1 2003 HD

    Documentary about Nigel Kneale, creator of Quatermass.

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  • 2005
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    Cartier and Kneale in Conversation

    Cartier and Kneale in Conversation

    1 2005 HD

    Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Kneale talk about there careers

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  • 1954
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    7.4 1954 HD

    A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a...

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  • 1967
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    Quatermass and the Pit

    Quatermass and the Pit

    6.596 1967 HD

    A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

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  • 1967
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    Quatermass and the Pit

    Quatermass and the Pit

    6.596 1967 HD

    A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

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  • 1957
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    Quatermass 2

    Quatermass 2

    6.393 1957 HD

    In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: What Big Eyes

    Beasts: What Big Eyes

    1 1976 HD

    An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy....

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: Buddyboy

    Beasts: Buddyboy

    2 1976 HD

    When a nightclub owner buys a derelict dolphinarium, he and a young woman seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddy Boy, the star attraction. Created...

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: The Dummy

    Beasts: The Dummy

    1 1976 HD

    A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of...

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  • 1966
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    The Witches

    The Witches

    6 1966 HD

    Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

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  • 1964
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    First Men in the Moon

    First Men in the Moon

    6.3 1964 HD

    The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts...

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  • 1972
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    The Stone Tape

    The Stone Tape

    5.844 1972 HD

    A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill...

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  • 1979
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    The Quatermass Conclusion

    The Quatermass Conclusion

    4.188 1979 HD

    Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties,...

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  • 1962
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    H.M.S. Defiant

    H.M.S. Defiant

    6.453 1962 HD

    Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual...

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  • 1957
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    The Abominable Snowman

    The Abominable Snowman

    6.185 1957 HD

    A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

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  • 1957
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    The Abominable Snowman

    The Abominable Snowman

    6.185 1957 HD

    A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

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  • 1989
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    The Woman in Black

    The Woman in Black

    6.788 1989 HD

    When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the...

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  • 2005
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    The Quatermass Experiment

    The Quatermass Experiment

    5.5 2005 HD

    Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing...

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  • 2005
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    The Quatermass Experiment

    The Quatermass Experiment

    5.5 2005 HD

    Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing...

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  • 1960
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    The Entertainer

    The Entertainer

    6.076 1960 HD

    Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

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  • 1959
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    Look Back in Anger

    Look Back in Anger

    6.6 1959 HD

    A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

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  • 1954
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    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    7.4 1954 HD

    A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a...

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  • 1995
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    Sharpe's Gold

    Sharpe's Gold

    6.538 1995 HD

    Sharpe is sent on a mission to exchange rifles for deserters with a strange band of Spanish guerillas. He also has to chaperone two women looking for...

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  • 1962
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    10 1962 HD

    Adaptation of the novel by Emily Brontë.

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  • 1953
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    1 1953 HD

    Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting...

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  • 1965
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    The World of George Orwell: 1984

    The World of George Orwell: 1984

    1 1965 HD

    Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

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  • 1968
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    The Year of the Sex Olympics

    The Year of the Sex Olympics

    5.3 1968 HD

    Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the...

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: Special Offer

    Beasts: Special Offer

    1 1976 HD

    A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come...

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: During Barty's Party

    Beasts: During Barty's Party

    1 1976 HD

    A suburban couple are held under siege by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: Baby

    Beasts: Baby

    1 1976 HD

    A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and...

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  • 1955
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    The Quatermass Xperiment

    The Quatermass Xperiment

    6.6 1955 HD

    The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

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  • 1975
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    Murrain

    Murrain

    6.667 1975 HD

    When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it...

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  • 1987
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    Gentry

    Gentry

    7 1987 HD

    Gerald and Susannah, an affluent young couple, inspect a shabby town house for sale. Gerald has plans to renovate it and sell it on for a big profit....

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  • 1964
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    The Road

    The Road

    1 1964 HD

    The road through the wood is said to be haunted; but are the ghosts from the past or the future?

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  • 1957
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    Quatermass 2

    Quatermass 2

    6.393 1957 HD

    In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret,...

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  • 1963
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    The Road

    The Road

    1 1963 HD

    In the late 18th century a small English village is haunted by ghostly apparitions. Sir Timothy Hassall, accompanied by his friend Gideon Cole,...

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  • 1967
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    The Quatermass Experiment

    The Quatermass Experiment

    1 1967 HD

    "The Quatermass Experiment" was a 1967 Australian teleplay based on a novel by Nigel Kneale - "The Quatermass Experiment".

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  • 1969
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    Bam! Pow! Zap!

    Bam! Pow! Zap!

    1 1969 HD

    A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.

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  • 1970
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    Wine of India

    Wine of India

    1 1970 HD

    In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government...

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  • 1981
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    Kinvig (TV pilot)

    Kinvig (TV pilot)

    1 1981 HD

    Lazy repairman Des Kinvig's life changes when he imagines meeting a glamorous alien from Mercury, who looks a lot like his latest customer Miss...

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  • 1978
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    Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl

    Als Hitler das rosa Kaninchen stahl

    1 1978 HD

    Anna is a Jewish girl in Germany. When the Nazis come to power in the 1930s, her family has to flee the country without being able to bring any of...

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  • 1982
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    Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    Halloween III: Season of the Witch

    5.212 1982 HD

    A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked, and at the hospital, babbles and clutches the year's most popular Halloween costume, an eerie...

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  • 1986
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    Ladies' Night

    Ladies' Night

    1 1986 HD

    A tradition-bound gentlemen's club is thrown into chaos when women are allowed in during "ladies' night." One member resents the intrusion of women...

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  • 1964
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    The Crunch

    The Crunch

    1 1964 HD

    A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge...

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  • 1970
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    7.74 1970 HD

    Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The life of Stanley Duke, a fortysomething advertising executive, is thrown into turmoil when his son is diagnosed a schizophrenic. Making matters...

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  • 1970
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    6.591 1970 HD

    The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the...

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  • 1970
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    5.778 1970 HD

    In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Late night bedtime stories. Tom Baker reads a series of macabre stories about childhood (season 1), and John Mills reads war stories (season 2).

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Kinvig is a sci-fi comedy television series made for British television in 1981. Ineffectual dreamer Des Kinvig (Tony Haygarth) runs a rundown...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.

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  • 1970
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    6.813 1970 HD

    A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.

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  • 1970
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    6.591 1970 HD

    The story of the first manned flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group. When the...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    The serial sees Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group being asked to examine strange meteorite showers. His...

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  • 1970
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    5.778 1970 HD

    In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...

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  • 1970
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    6.813 1970 HD

    A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.

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