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	Ronald Harwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ronald Harwood (born November 9, 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a playwright and writer.
		Harwood also has a strong interest in World War II, as shown by the films 'Operation Daybreak', 'The Statement', 'The Pianist', and his play turned to film 'Taking Sides'.
		Harwood was president of the English PEN Club from 1989 to 1993, and of International PEN from 1993 to 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ronald_Harwood (281 words)

	Ronald Harwood - author of 'The Dresser' and other plays published by Amber Lane Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ronald Harwood’s play is a dramatisation of the trial of four Polish Security Service officers responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the Warsaw priest on the night of 19th October 1984.
		In Ronald Harwood's play it is the character of the dresser who is the pivot for these ideals, a perpetuator of the myth, struggling to keep the tradition alive.
		In this dramatisation Ronald Harwood skilfully recreates the ordeal of a man living through a nightmare of intrigue and conspiracy, beset by hallucinations and voices in the air.
	members.aol.com /amberlanepress/harwood_ronald.htm (1475 words)

	Ronald Harwood - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ronald Harwood’s plays include A Family, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (from Evelyn Waugh), The Dresser, Tramway Road, The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest, Interpreters, J.J. Farr, Ivanov (from Chekov), Another Time, Reflected Glory, Poison Pen, Taking Sides, The Handyman, Equally Divided, Quartet and Mahler’s Conversion.
		Ronald Harwood’s awards for The Pianist include the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the National Society of Film Critics’ Award for Best Screenplay and the Founders’ Award from the Zaki Gordon Insitute for Independent Filmmaking.
		Ronald Harwood is also the author of several novels.
	www.theword.org.uk /DOCS/harwoodBiog.htm (312 words)

	The Jewish Exponent - Philadelphia, PA
		Still, Harwood thinks the Lean film version was a meat-and-potatoes dish for those who like their Fagins fearfully anti-Semitic, a bleak house of hate to live in.
		Harwood, too, learned to think outside the parameters of his own country: Born in South Africa, he immigrated to England 54 years ago while a teen.
		Harwood, whose roots are firmly planted in the iconography of Judaism, is a wordsmith who feels the lure and lull of language - and loathes its misreadings.
	www.jewishexponent.com /ViewArticle.asp?ArtID=1104 (979 words)

	FORWARD : FacesForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In May 2002, while some Jewish activists were inciting Hollywood regulars to boycott the Cannes Film Festival as a protest against a wave of antisemitism in France, screenwriter and playwright Ronald Harwood was attending the world's most celebrated film festival for his movie's premiere.
		Harwood's father escaped pogroms in Lithuania at the turn of the century.
		For "Taking Sides," Harwood was intrigued by a book describing Furtwängler's dilemma: Furtwängler claimed he was first and foremost an artist and was not interested in politics.
	www.forward.com /issues/2003/03.09.05/faces.html (889 words)

	Ronald Harwood @ Filmbug
		British screenwriter and dramatist Ronald Harwood received Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award nominations for his adapting his play The Dresser to the screen.
		The film was directed by Peter Yates, and starred Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay (all of whom also received Academy Award and BAFTA Award nominations for the project, which itself was nominated for Best Picture).
		Harwood was made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1974; and was Visitor in Theatre at Balliol College, Oxford in 1985.
	www.filmbug.com /db/342966 (381 words)

	CBC News:Winnipeg theatre's deal with playwright goes up in smoke
		Harwood, who won an Academy Award in 2002 for his screenplay for The Pianist, also railed against cities like Toronto and New York, which similarly restrict public smoking.
		The cancellation came after Harwood received a director's contract, in writing, which outlined the theatre's no smoking policy, from Steven Schipper, the Manitoba Theatre Centre's artistic director.
		In recent years, the South African-born Harwood, a former president of PEN International, has often ranted against the movement to ban smoking in public, with specific venom towards the medical profession.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2004/04/06/canada/harwood_play040406 (429 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Taking Sides
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		One can't help but devise mental arguments in opposition to Harwood's thesis, particularly since the American mouthpiece of the play a crude Army major played by Ed Harris amounts to little more than a stick figure incapable of bearing the weight of what should be a legitimate viewpoint.
		Harwood can't, or rather won't, say, making his snide insinuations that the Army investigators employ Nazi tactics all the more egregious: The major's final lines involve controlling the American press specifically, the New York Times that recall earlier comments made in the play against the Hitler regime.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117911318?categoryid=33&cs=1 (1130 words)

	The Warwick Boar - Arts: Ronald Harwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Harwood was originally born in South Africa, but emigrated to England at an early age, and seems firmly rooted in a canon of traditional English literature.
		At several moments, Harwood has the assembled listeners in full-laughter, despite the fact that, if anything, he looks to be the complete opposite of a comedian.
		Harwood is naturally a very funny man and this is undoubtedly an aspect of his own personality that comes through in his screenwriting work.
	www.warwickboar.co.uk /core/arts/ronald_harwood (912 words)

	FilmStew.com • Ronald Harwood Remembers
		With the 2003 best adapted screenplay Oscar under his belt, scribe Ronald Harwood is now prepared to take on his next project.
		Harwood, who recently signed for representation with International Creative Management, pulled off a surprise victory by taking home the Oscar for his Pianist adaptation, as did the film's director, Roman Polanski, and star, Adrien Brody.
		Harwood's recent credits include The Statement, which is now in post-production for director Norman Jewison, and Being Julia, which helmer Istvan Szabo is now filming.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6104 (353 words)

	Ronald Harwood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He moved to (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre.
		He won an (An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance) Academy Award for the script of 'The Pianist', having already been nominated for one for 'The Dresser'.
		Harwood was president of the English PEN Club from 1989 to 1993, and of (Click link for more info and facts about International PEN) International PEN from 1993 to 1997.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/ronald_harwood.htm (336 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Fashionably Great (December 2 - December 8, 1999)
		Though written when Harwood was in his 40s, much of the research and inspiration for this play came 20 years earlier, when Harwood himself served as dresser for the Shakespearean actor Sir Donald Wolfit.
		In the foreword to his published play, Harwood is emphatic that The Dresser is not about their relationship, though it borrows heavily from memory and anecdotes from the South African playwright's long history in English theatre.
		Harwood changes some of the characters in the screenplay, and the play is actually much funnier than the movie.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/1999-12-02/review3.html (1128 words)

	Biography for Ronald Harwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Born in South-Africa in 1934, Ronald Harwood moved to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater.
		Harwood also has a strong interest in the WWII period, as highlighted by the films 'Operation daybreak', 'The Statement', 'The Pianist', and his play turned to film 'Taking sides'.
		Made Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1974 and Commander of the British Empire in 1999, Harwood was president of the international PEN Club from 1993 to 1997 after presiding the British section during the four previous years.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0367838/bio (338 words)

	www.haroldpinter.org - Taking Sides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Harwood holds the scales of justice with considerable and commendable dexterity.
		Ronald Harwood in Michael Billington, The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, London: Faber and Faber, 1996, pp.365-6.
		Pinter understands and respects Harwood's decision to let the characters make their own case without the luxury of seeing themselves as tragic figures on a world stage.
	www.haroldpinter.org /directing/directing_sides.shtml (535 words)

	The Handyman : Ronald Harwood
		Ronald Harwood was born in Cape Town in 1934 and came to England in 1951.
		A life-long cricket enthusiast (member of MCC) among his fondest memories of the country of his birth are of Denis Compton batting in the first MCC tour of South Africa after the war.
		Ronald is a true internationalist; his work has been highly regarded round the world and since 1993 he has been President of International PEN, the world organisation of writers.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /paulmillington/plays0102/chalkcircle.html (817 words)

	Press release - Responding to diversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LONDON-(23 April 2004) In a recent lecture (see JPR Newsletter - Summer 2004), Oscar-winning writer Ronald Harwood CBE declared that when attempting to depict the reality of what took place in Nazi Europe, occasionally 'truth…can best be revealed through fiction…it is the individual artist's truth that allows us to accept the validity of the past'.
		Harwood, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for the 'The Pianist', spoke at Chatham House on 'Truth and Fiction: Holocaust on Stage and Screen', in a lecture sponsored by JPR/ Institute for Jewish Policy Research in association with the Spiro Ark.
		Harwood spoke Tuesday-one day after Holocaust Remembrance Day-and drew from the many challenges he faced adapting Wladislaw Szpilman's novel for the Roman Polanski film.
	www.jpr.org.uk /Press_releases/ronald_harwood_23_april_04.htm (359 words)

	The FORCES International Honour Committee
		In April, 2004, Oscar-winning English playwright, author and screenwriter Ronald Harwood cancelled plans to work with a theatre company in the Canadian city of Winnipeg when he found out about the city’s blanket public smoking ban.
		The South African-born Harwood began his theatre career in London in 1951, and since then has accumulated a long and distinguished list of achievements in theatre and film as a writer of plays and screenplays.
		Harwood is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Commander of the British Empire, and a past president of the international PEN Club.
	www.forces.org /honour/harwoodeng.htm (140 words)

	FilmStew.com • Oscar-Winning Team Tackles Oliver
		Roman Polanski to reteam with his Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood for an adaptation of Dickens' Oliver Twist.
		Roman Polanski and Ronald Harwood, the Oscar-winning team behind last year's The Pianist, will reteam to put together a big screen adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
		Polanski will direct and Harwood will adapt the project, and the pair will reunite with Pianist producers Alain Sarde and Robert Benmussa for the Twist project.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=6709 (330 words)

	The Handyman : Ronald Harwood
		The play takes place in the 1990’s on warm summer’s days in the garden of a house in the Sussex countryside, with some scenes in interview rooms at Scotland Yard where recorded interviews are also played.
		The Handyman was first performed at the Minerva, Chichester, in 1996, with Frank Finlay in the title role, a year after Ronald Harwood’s ‘Taking Sides’.
		We were lucky enough to be able to welcome the author of the play, Ronald Harwood, to a rehearsal and to discuss the play with him.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /paulmillington/plays0102/handyman.html (1819 words)

	Ronald Harwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		In the early 1950s, Ronald Harwood abandoned his own acting aspirations to become the backstage dresser for Sir Donald Wolfit, a British actor who toured the provinces doing Shakespeare and was renowned in the land.
		That experience led to "The Dresser", a hit play in London (1980) and on Broadway (1981) which subsequently became a successful film (1983) starring Tom Courtenay as the fictional Harwood character and Albert Finney as the burnt-out Wolfit who comes alive only with the smell of greasepaint and the roar of the crowd.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/188662 (380 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: San Francisco - "The Dresser" - 4/1/05
		(I had seen Sir Donald on stage after the war; he was a magnificent actor who dominated the stage in any of the Bard's plays.) Ronald Harwood was Wolfit's dresser for five years; however, Harwood states the play is not about their relationship.
		Undoubtedly, this is Ronald Harwood finest literary play and the dialogue is sparking with theatrical wit.
		The Dresser is set in January 1942 in a theatre in the English provinces, with the country in the middle of the blitz.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/sanfran/s610.html (719 words)

	RONALD HARWOOD - SCREENPLAY WINNER FIGHTS EXHAUSTION TO PARTY
		Best Adapted Screenplay winner RONALD HARWOOD was hoping he could cope with the post-OSCARS razzamatazz last night (23MAR03) after days of insomnia.
		The Brit, who won for THE PIANIST, has found it difficult to sleep ever since he arrived in Los Angeles for the ACADEMY AWARDS last week (ends21MAR03) and was desperate to get to bed.
		After winning his prize, Harwood said, "I'm very tired, actually.
	excite.contactmusic.com /new/xmlfeed.nsf/0/D4B0071EA018ED3180256CF3002AD245!opendocument (179 words)

	Playbill News: Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser Opens in London Feb. 28
		Julian Glover and Nicholas Lyndhurst open in Ronald Harwood’s most famous play, The Dresser, Feb. 28.
		Harwood’s last completely new West End play, Mahler’s Conversion, which starred Anthony Sher, was a critical flop (although he did subsequently adapt a Francis Veber comedy, See U Next Tuesday).
		The Dresser, about a lead actor’s relationship with his dresser, was inspired by Harwood’s own time working as dresser for Donald Wolfit.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/91414.html (427 words)

	Playbill News: Canadian Production of The Dresser Up in Smoke as Harwood Fumes
		Playwright Ronald Harwood likes a good smoke better than a than a royalty check.
		When Harwood, an avid fan of cigarettes, discovered the only smoking lounge he could find in Winnipeg is the all outdoors, he pulled the plug of a planned staging of his most famous play, The Dresser.
		Said Harwood: "I have recently visited Canada and had to suffer the most draconian antismoking regulations in restaurants and public buildings.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/85438.html (334 words)

	Another America, Donald Freed, Harold Pinter, Ronald Harwood,Writers' Groups
		No iron spike can pierce the heart as deeply as a period in exactly the right place.
		This website is the manifest of a group of writers dedicated to the celebration of the written word--both classic and contemporary.
		Included among our friends are Donald Freed, Harold Pinter, Ronald Harwood, James Ragan, Shelley Berman, Norman Corwin, and Jack Langguth.
	www.anotheramerica.org (393 words)

	Forward: Painting a Portrait of the Artist During the Third Reich; Screenwriter Ronald Harwood Explores the Moral ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Forward: Painting a Portrait of the Artist During the Third Reich; Screenwriter Ronald Harwood Explores the Moral Dilemma Facing 'Hitler's Bandleader'@ HighBeam Research
		Painting a Portrait of the Artist During the Third Reich; Screenwriter Ronald Harwood Explores the Moral Dilemma Facing 'Hitler's Bandleader'
		antisemitism in France, screenwriter and playwright Ronald Harwood was
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:85985007&refid=ip_almanac_hf (212 words)

	Ronald Harwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He served as Sir Donald's dresser, as well as an actor with the company.
		Harwood began writing in 1960 and is now considered one of Britain's finest writers.
		A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he is best known for his novels The Girl in Melanie Klein, The Guild Merchants and Articles of Faith, and for his plays The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold and The Dresser (1981).
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/harwood_r.htm (170 words)

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