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Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and ''The Pianist'', for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for ''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (2007). == Early life and career == Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz.〔http://www.filmreference.com/film/83/Ronald-Harwood.html〕 Harwood moved from Cape Town to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. He changed his surname from Horwitz to Harwood after an English master told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage actor.〔Walker, Tim ("In Praise of the Patriotic Playwright" ), ''The Spectator'', 14 June 2006〕 After training for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit. From 1953 to 1958, Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. He would later draw on this experience when he wrote the stage play, ''The Dresser'', and the biography, ''Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His life and work in the Unfashionable Theatre''. In 1959, after leaving the Donald Wolfit Company, he joined the 59 Theatre Company for a season at the Lyric Hammersmith. In 1960, Harwood began a career as a writer and published his first novel, ''All the Same Shadows'' in 1961, the screenplay, ''Private Potter'' in 1962, and the produced stage play, ''March Hares'' in 1964. Harwood continued at a prolific pace penning more than 21 stage plays, and 10 books. He also created more than 16 screen plays, but seldom wrote original material directly for the screen, usually acting as an adapter, sometimes of his own work (notably ''The Dresser''). One of the recurring themes in Harwood's work is his fascination for the stage, its performing artists and artisans as displayed in ''The Dresser'', his plays, ''After the Lions'' (about Sarah Bernhardt), ''Another Time'' (a semi-autobiographical piece about a gifted South African pianist), ''Quartet'' (about ageing opera singers) and his non-fiction book ''All the World's a Stage'', a general history of theatre. Harwood also has a strong interest in the Nazi period, especially the situation of individuals who either voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis or, alternatively, who faced strong pressure to do so and had, in each case, to work out their own personal combination of resistance, deception and compromise. His work focusing on this period includes the films ''Operation Daybreak'' (covering the assassination by the Czechoslovakian Resistance of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich), ''The Statement'' (a fictionalized account of the post-War life-on-the-run of French collaborator Paul Touvier), ''The Pianist'' (an adaptation of the autobiography of the Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman covering his survival during the Nazi occupation of Poland), the play later adapted to film ''Taking Sides'' (focused on the post-War "de-Nazification" investigation of the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler), the play ''Collaboration'' (about the composer Richard Strauss and his partnership with the Jewish writer Stefan Zweig), and the play ''An English Tragedy'' (dealing with the British fascist John Amery).〔(Financial Times interview with Ronald Harwood, 16 February 2008 )〕〔(Evening Standard review, 19 February 2008 )〕 Harwood also wrote the screenplay for the films, ''The Browning Version'' (1994) with Albert Finney, ''Being Julia'' (2004) with Annette Bening and Jeremy Irons, and Roman Polanski's version of ''Oliver Twist'' (2005) with Ben Kingsley. He won an Academy Award for the script of ''The Pianist'', having already been nominated for ''The Dresser'' in 1983. Harwood received his third Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2007 for his adaptation of the memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby, ''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'', for which he also won a BAFTA and the Prix Jacques Prévert du Scénario in 2008, for Best Adaptation. In 2008, Harwood was also awarded the Humanitas Award in recognition of ''The Diving Bell and the Butterfly''. 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「Ronald Harwood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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