Terence Rattigan
Playwright, screenwriter
Died when: 66 years 173 days (797 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter.He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists.
His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background.He wrote The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others.
A troubled homosexual who saw himself as an outsider, Rattigan wrote a number of plays which centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, or a world of repression and reticence.
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