Born at Bletchingley, Surrey, the son of Michael Frederic Beauchamp Dennis, a lieutenant-colonel in a Scottish regiment, and his wife, Louise Bosanquet Dennis, Nigel Dennis enjoyed only a brief spell of settled family life as a child. His father was...

Nigel Dennis came to prominence as a playwright in 1956 at the same time as John Osborne. In fact, George Devine, director of the Royal Court Theatre, in summing up the successes of his first season, named Dennis and Osborne as the two important...

When Nigel Dennis turned from novel writing to the theater, the omens were good. His first play, Cards of Identity (1956), was part of the legendary first season--a season that included John Osborne's Look Back in Anger--of the English Stage Company...

Award-winning radio producer Nigel Acheson has been described by the Radio 4 commissioning editor Andrew Caspari as "simply one of the greatest radio producers of our time". One of his former BBC colleagues, the radio producer Vanessa Harrison, said that "Nigel was one...

Prolific charity fundraiser Nigel Clark used his skills as an advertising executive to help raise close to a quarter of a billion pounds for dozens of charities, most notably the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, the Kingston Hospital cancer unit in...