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Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. His work in television drama began with contributions to BBC television's ''The Wednesday Play'' anthology series from 1965, and continued for the next thirty years. His BBC TV serial ''The Singing Detective'' (1986) was particularly well received.〔Graham Fuller ("The Singing Detective: 25 Years On"" ), ''Sight and Sound'', November 2011 (Updated 6 March 2014)〕 This work and many of his television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social and often used themes and images from popular culture. A sufferer from psoriatic arthropathy for most of his adult life, Potter made regular public pronouncements on issues dear to him. ==Early life== Dennis Potter was born in Berry Hill, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. His father, Walter Edward Potter (26 April 1906 – November 1975),〔''Arena'' interview, 1987〕 was a coal miner in this rural mining area between Gloucester and Wales; his mother was Margaret Constance, née Wale (25 August 1910– August 2001). Potter has a sister named June.〔"(Arena: ''Painting the Clouds: A Portrait of Dennis Potter'' )", The Encylopaedia of Fantastic Film & Television, 25 December 2004〕 In 1946, Potter passed the eleven-plus and attended Bell's Grammar School at Coleford. The ten-year-old Potter was sexually abused by his uncle, an experience he would later allude to many times in his writing. During his speech at the 1993 James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Potter referred to this event when explaining his decision to switch from newspaper journalism to screenwriting: "Different words had to be found, with different functions. But why? Why, why, why; the same desperately repeated question I asked myself without any sort of an answer, or any ability to tell my mother or my father, when at the age of ten, between V.E. Day and V.J. Day, I was trapped by an adult's sexual appetite and abused out of innocence." Between 1953 and 1955, Potter did his National Service and learnt Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists.〔("Dennis Potter obituary" ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 8 June 1994〕 On 10 January 1959 he married at the Christchurch parish church Margaret Amy Morgan (14 August 1933 – 1994), a local girl he met at a dance.〔 They lived a "surprisingly quiet private life" at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and had a son, Robert and two daughters, Jane and Sarah, who was to achieve prominence in the 1980s as an international cricketer.〔http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/53833.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dennis Potter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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