Dennis potter short biography
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Dennis Potter was one of the most important creative figures in the history of British television.
Dennis potter short biography
From 1965 until his death in 1994, he constructed a personal body of work of such remarkable depth and range that has yet to be matched in the TV medium. The most prolific yet also most controversial of television playwrights, he remains the undisputed figurehead of that peculiarly British phenomenon of writers who expend much of their working lives and passions attempting to show that television can be just as powerful a vehicle for artistic expression as cinema or theatre.
Born on 17 May 1935, Potter was raised in what he later described as the "tight, enclosed, backward" world of the Forest of Dean, a remote rural idyll nestling between two rivers, the Severn and the Wye, on the aggressively English side of the border with Wales.
The product of a remote God-fearing community, he attended chapel at least twice every Sunday and the vividness of its language and metaphors formed