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	Nigel Kneale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nigel Kneale (born Thomas Nigel Kneale on April 18, 1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England, UK) is a Manx television and film scriptwriter, who has worked mostly in the UK.
		Kneale enjoyed life on the island, but a skin condition meant that the weather there did not suit him and in 1947 he left for England.
		Kneale's original scripts were adapted into a single two-hour version (although in the event the broadcast ran to only one hour forty minutes) by producer Richard Fell, and Kneale acted as a consultant on the production which was broadcast on Saturday April 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nigel_Kneale (1429 words)

	k-punk: RECORDING GHOSTS
		It's true, Kneale agrees, as science since the enlightenment has maintained there is no supplementary spiritual substance, but the material world in which we live is more profoundly alien and strange than we have ever imagined.
		Kneale's thesis is that hauntings and ghosts are particularly intense phenomena that are literally recorded by matter, by the stone of the room.
		To begin with, it seems that the ghostly screams are passive and inert, as incapable of exerting agency as the dry rot that afflicts the haunted room; yet in the end, it is the human beings who are revealed to be caught in a terrible compulsion to repeat.
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/000818.html (622 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Interviews/Nigel Kneale
		Kneale's ability to take elements of the supernatural and provide a plausible explanation resulted in a tale that rather than nullifying the terrifying notion of phantoms, actually heightened the fear by making them somehow more believable.
		NIGEL KNEALE: I actually wrote a film in the mid '60s when in fact I was believed to be dying (I had a mystery disease that was never solved).
		NIGEL KNEALE: No it never occurred to me. Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is. But Nancy Bank-Smith (the television critic of The Guardian) came around and wanted to talk about that point.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /interviews/nigelkneale.htm (5225 words)

	Manx Radio: Arts & Culture Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nigel is married to Judith Kerr, a very successful author and Nigel's son Mathew won the Whitbread Prize for his book "The Passenger" and his daughter worked on the special effects in the Harry Potter Films.
		Nigel may not have been born on the Island but as he explained to Roy, he thought of himself as a Manxman.
		Kneale objected to the casting, but this and the follow-up film, Quatermass II (Enemy from Space) -- adapted from Kneale's 1955 TV series -- were successful all over the world and helped put Hammer Films on the map after a shaky start.
	beta.manxradio.com /manxent/Images/Kneale/kneale-index.shtml (695 words)

	k-punk: NO FUTUREBLEED: KNEALE'S HAUNTOLOGY
		Kneale's revelation - that human beings are the by-product of an alien breeding experiment, that deep within us is a Martian, burning with the desire to indiscriminately destroy - others, yes but ultimately, itself - is the uncomfortable punk gnosis.
		Kneale's SF, like Ballard's disaster novels of the early 60s, is compelled to endlessly rehearse apocalypse, to re-imagine civilization in meltdown.
		'Nigel Kneale's astounding modern day ghost story takes the "old dark house" genre and turns it on its head, as a team of scientists trying to devise a new recording medium buy up an old house to conduct their confidential research, only to find it seems to be haunted.
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/000679.html (2246 words)

	"Bring something back": the strange career of Professor Bernard Quatermass - Nigel Kneale's Quartermas serials - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Professor Bernard Quatermass, the creation of author Nigel Kneale, was the head of British Rocket Group, tangling with alien threats in four television serials between 1953 and 1979.
		This was the environment into which Nigel Kneale came to work in the BBC script department, after winning the Somerset Maugham Prize for his 1949 short story collection Tomato Cain and Other Stories.
		After writ ing and adapting various television plays between 1952 and 1953, Kneale was approached to fill a gap in the BBC schedules, amounting to six weekly half-hours.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_3_30/ai_94465271 (907 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Time Shift - Nigel Kneale
		Time Shift celebrates the career of pioneering TV writer Nigel Kneale, whose Quatermass serials terrified audiences in the 1950s, and whose later works such as The Stone Tape are regarded as modern classics.
		For many aficionados of science fiction and the paranormal, Nigel Kneale is a hero.
		Cited as an influence by John Carpenter, Stephen King and the creators of The X-Files, Kneale's eclectic and intelligent dramas seem even more impressive and prescient today than when they were written in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/timeshift/nigel-kneale.shtml (219 words)

	QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
		Kneale was unhappy with many things about the Hammer productions, not the least of which was the choice of American Brian Donlevy to play Professor Quatermass.
		Kneale creates very recognizably human characters, throws them into outlandish SF plots and manages to make the stories believable.
		In 1980 Kneale wrote one last Quatermass story for TV that has yet to be transferred to the big screen but with it's extremely downbeat ending I doubt it would survive the process intact.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/quatermass_pit.htm (1096 words)

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		The then Head of BBC Drama, Michael Barry was so impressed with the quality of Kneale's work that he decided to spend his entire budget for script allocation on him.
		As the decades roll by Nigels' work has been less and less, no doubt he deserves a rest for his efforts, his most recent work was an Episode of
		He also managed to find the time to celebrate the anniversary of his Quatermass stories with the BBC, where he was photographed outside T.V.Centre in Shepherds Bush with one of the Martians from Quatermass And The Pit.
	users.metronet.co.uk /cultv/nigelkneale.htm (421 words)

	DVD REVIEW: QUARTERMASS AND THE PIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First and foremost is the running audio commentary by director Roy Ward Baker and writer Nigel Kneale that was recorded last year.
		Kneale jumps right in with his thoughts, while Baker, who must be up there in age, requires a little prodding to get started.
		Kneale's big speech is about how he trimmed the script for the lengthy BBC television show down to a 98 minute movie.
	www.lightviews.com /quartermass.htm (895 words)

	Nigel Kneale: Behind the Dark Door
		Nigel Kneale has stated on many occasions that he is not a science-fiction writer, but a drama writer who uses science-fiction as a vehicle for his plays and serials.
		Mr Kneale was also good enough to help on the editing and preparation of this piece.
		Nigel has mentionned that he was asked to write for DOCTOR WHO at its conception, but refused, not liking the idea.
	www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/8504/kneal.htm (7159 words)

	AudioRevolution DVD Review Quatermass 2
		Kneale wrote a sequel for the BBC, QUATERMASS 2, and Hammer bought that as well, though this time they hired Kneale to write the screenplay.
		Kneale is still bitter about not having been consulted on the first film, and complains at some length about Brian Donlevy, whom he considered altogether wrong for the role of Quatermass.
		The movie is a classic expression of 1950s paranoia; Kneale says that Britain was much more secrecy-prone in that period than was the United States, and yet communist spies got much higher into the British government echelons than they ever did in America.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/quatermass2.shtml (1067 words)

	Action TV Online - Now On The Big Screen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another collaboration between Nigel Kneale and Producer Rudolph Cartier, following their work together on the first Quatermass serial and Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four, The Creature had had two ninety minute stagings on the BBC in January and February 1955, a few months ahead of the broadcast of the second Quatermass story in October.
		Kneale was far more pleased with the work than the previous two Quatermass features, the latter of which he once considered using his joint-rights in, to pull the film out of circulation.
		Kneale altered the setting of the story quite drastically for the film, turning his story of haunted spectres at Hob's Lane into one at Hobb's End Tube Station, the plot however, remained roughly the same in layout, with all the major characters returning for the project.
	www.action-tv.org.uk /features/articles/bigscreen.htm (4439 words)

	The Quatermass Trilogy - A Controlled Paranoia
		Kneale choose the name of the serial’s hero from the London telephone directory and The Quatermass Experiment, which was transmitted live, became a national success and a landmark in television drama showing that the small-screen could compete with the then current Hollywood horror-cycle with more intelligent scripts and credible characters.
		Kneale’s TV script specifies a “colored workman” who was played straight by Lionel Ngakane but in Hammer’s version the role becomes a stereotypical, superstitious Negro (Elroy Josephs) of the eyeball-rolling variety.
		Nigel Kneale wrote a forth TV serial in the late 1960s entitled Quatermass (aka The Quatermass Conclusion) starring John Mills which was made and transmitted in 1979.
	www.members.aol.com /cinemabritain/quatermass.html (6662 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Films - The Quatermass Trilogy
		Nigel Kneale’s three Quatermass stories were originally screened by the BBC in the 1950s.
		Kneale created a horror saga with the trappings of the dawning space age.
		However, Nigel Kneale was so annoyed at the casting of Donlevy and Val Guest’s tinkering with his script that he blocked a third Quatermass film for ten years.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/quatermass.htm (1946 words)

	Nigel Kneale/Peter Sasdy: The Stone Tape
		In the 1950s Nigel Kneale's BBC science-fiction serials The Quatermass Experiment, Quatermass II, Quatermass and the Pit) created the flickering monochrome nightmares of a generation of British viewers.
		It's typical of Kneale's macabre sensibility that The Stone Tape -- the bleakest of all his works -- was written in response to a commission for a Christmas Night ghost story.
		These opening scenes cover familiar genre territory, but Kneale and Sasdy maintain pace and credibility by the economy of the subsequent exposition, which is developed via tense exchanges between Brock and Jill or the raucous banter of the team.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/media/StoneTape.htm (1429 words)

	K A B I N E T
		The refinery plays home to many of the film's most memorable scenes, including a moment that is still horrifying to watch 45 years later, as one of the characters tumbles down the stairs of a silo, covered in an alien substance, screaming in excruciating anguish as his flesh blisters away.
		Kneale was very keen to show that "most of the heavies, rather than being the aliens, were the people who are covering up the aliens." Kneale also points a finger at the dull conformity of the "dreary new suburbs" that were then springing up around England, and makes the suburbanites complicit, if not specifically evil.
		Kneale believed, as many writers do, that "science fiction is a comment of society at the time," and went to great lengths to develop a plot for Quatermass 2 that matched the zeitgeist.
	www.kabinet.org /magazine/issue12/quatermass2.html (1096 words)

	Quartermass
		Kneale himself went on to adapt George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four for Cartier's controversial 1954 telecast.
		As a result, or perhaps simply because of Kneale and Cartier's effective combination of science fiction and poignant melodrama, audiences were captivated.
		Kneale and Cartier's third serial in the series, Quatermass and the Pit, combined the poetic horror of the first and the paranoia of the second.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Q/htmlQ/quartermass/quartermass.htm (1076 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The British writer Nigel Kneale is responsible for some of the best and most thought-provoking science fiction scripts that have ever been written for television.
		According to Kneale, his use of the fantastic -- which, by the way, is almost always grounded in real science -- was intended only to give him the imaginative license to create challenging and unexpected stories.
		Many of Kneale's stories involve the idea of telepathy -- of a distant, outside force, whether human or not, whether intelligent or not, whether from the future or the distant past -- and its controlling impact on intelligent people.
	www.braineater.com /house/stonetape.html (2739 words)

	Beasts - The Complete Series - DVDs & VHS - MovieMail UK
		Any re-release of a series conceived and written by Nigel Kneale (writer of Quatermass, The Year of the Sex Olympics and The Stone Tape among many others) is a cause for celebration.
		The reputation of Nigel Kneale’s legendary TV sequence of six spine-chilling plays has grown immeasurably over the years, fuelled by the fact that (since their initial showings in the 70s) they were virtually unseeable.
		Kneale was born in 1922 on the Isle of Man, and studied at RADA.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /films/17908 (448 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1957)
		The two Quatermass films were directed by Val Guest and were adapted from original BBC television productions written by Nigel Kneale.
		Nigel Kneale is unquestionably one of the best science fiction screenwriters ever to work in the business.
		Nigel also has a wonderful talent of taking our expectations and turning them upside down.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews/snowman.html (1012 words)

	Nigel Kneale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Premier pionnier-scénariste de la science fiction télévisée anglaise, Nigel Kneale a créé le personnage de Quatermass, véritable icone culturel reconnu partout dans le monde grâce aux adaptations de la Hammer.
		Kneale continue donc de trouver des explications radicales pour des phénomènes qui tiennent du merveilleux et signe un pamphlet anti-violence original et toujours efficace.
		Nigel Kneale écrit six téléfilms pour la compagnie ATV sous le thème des BÊTES.
	www.clubdesmonstres.com /kneale.htm (3664 words)

	Quatermass and the Pit Movie Review - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
		Kneale had adapted George Orwell’s 1984 for BBC television in 1954, and was offered Doctor Who at that series’ inception but turned it down.
		The visions people are having are suppressed race memories of this purge, coming to the fore due to the reactivation of the vessel in the subway.
		By channeling society’s fears through science fiction and horror, Nigel Kneale didn’t so much provide catharsis as remind us that, to a nation that has stared its own near-destruction in the face, some horrors never go away.
	www.bloody-disgusting.com /review.php?id=1203 (1242 words)

	Nigel Kneale contents page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the home page of Kneale, the mailing list created for discussion of the work of Nigel Kneale.
		"Nigel Kneale is Britain's first significant television dramatist.
		Still writing for TV in the 90s, Kneale is a genuine small-screen visionary whose often fantastical work also inspired the whole Hammer horror phenomenon."
	www.nigelkneale.cwc.net (101 words)

	DVD Review - Films In Review’s HALLOWEEN DVDS 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kneale has a gift for the surprise twist, for the revelatory reveal.
		Also included on the disc is the dramatically shortened theatrical cut of the film which, surprisingly, works, and a documentary on Stonehenge.
		I would have been thrilled to have the interview with Nigel Kneale that Max found on his U. disc, but I’m happy to have what they’ve given us.
	www.filmsinreview.com /Features/haloween05-5.html (1040 words)

	Matthew Kneale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Kneale (born November 24, 1960) is a British writer, best known for his 2000 novel English Passengers, which won the prestigious Whitbread Book Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
		Kneale is the son of the writers Nigel Kneale and Judith Kerr.
		His other novels include Whore Banquets, (1987 - winner of the 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, which was also won by his father in 1950), Inside Rose's Kingdom (1989) and Sweet Thames (1992 - winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Kneale (177 words)

	Horrordvds.com - Quatermass 2 DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, in Donlevy's two films as Quatermass, I'm hard-pressed to even think of any of his supporting actors in the films, Donlevy commands that much attention on screen.
		Quatermass 2 is once again another adaptaion of a Nigel Kneale story and was also a BBC serial.
		Nigel Kneale's ability to leave the viewer with an uneasy sense of dread is something that works very well in these films and you'll see an encompassing feeling in the first two Quatermass films that nobody can be trusted, much like the film, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
	www.horrordvds.com /reviews/n-z/q2 (623 words)

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