David Hare (Writing)
Little is known about David Hare, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city forever. For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses exploited those in office through a mix of charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City’s workers, he created parks, bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors. Faced with resistance by protest groups campaigning for a very different idea of what the city should become, will the weakness of democracy be exposed in the face of his charismatic conviction?
Release Date:2022-05-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Backstage: Ralph Fiennes Straight Line Crazy
Ralph Fiennes is joined in dress rehearsals as he discusses his involvement in and the themes relating to David Hare’s brand-new play Straight Line Crazy.
Release Date:2022-05-23
Character:Himself
Beat the Devil
Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was announced in the UK.
Release Date:2021-11-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Roadkill
Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
Release Date:2020-10-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:57
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many who created the series, including producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, and directors Mike Leigh, David Hare and Ken Loach.
Release Date:2020-10-12
Character:Self
National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running
Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision. What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
Release Date:2019-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The White Crow
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
Release Date:2018-08-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:239
Collateral
When a pizza delivery driver is shot dead in south London, a tenacious detective goes after the people traffickers behind his murder and unravels a conspiracy that goes to the top.
Release Date:2018-02-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:182
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.
Release Date:2017-10-11
Character:Self
Vote Count:58
Wall
Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine.
Release Date:2017-09-25
Character:Himself
Vote Count:1
Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
In her garden in the Home Counties, leave-vote Eleanor wonders why the Brexit vote hasn’t made her happier.
Release Date:2017-06-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House
This documentary tells the story of the history of Ballyfin, how it played an important role in the political, artistic and social life of nineteenth century Ireland, and how it was abandoned by its Anglo-Irish owners at the beginning of the twentieth century. After the civil war, it was bought by the Patrician Brothers and used as a boarding school but eventually the upkeep became too much.
Release Date:2017-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.
Release Date:2016-12-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:6
Denial
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Release Date:2016-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:654
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.
Release Date:2016-06-13
Character:Self
National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of their own. Zehrunisa and her son Abdul aim to recycle enough rubbish to fund a proper house. Sunil, twelve and stunted, wants to eat until he’s as tall as Kalu the thief. Asha seeks to steal government anti-poverty funds to turn herself into a ‘first-class person’, while her daughter Manju intends to become the slum’s first female graduate. But their schemes are fragile; global recession threatens the garbage trade, and another slum-dweller is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.
Release Date:2015-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
National Theatre Live: Skylight
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires.
Release Date:2014-07-24
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Vote Count:10
Salting the Battlefield
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Release Date:2014-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:117
Turks & Caicos
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new life. He is hiding out in Ray-Bans on the Caribbean islands of the title, eating lobster and calling himself Tom Eliot (he’s a poet at heart). We’re drawn into his world and his predicament when Christopher Walken strolls in as a shadowy American who claims to know Johnny. The encounter forces him into the company of some ambiguous American businessmen who claim to be on the islands for a conference on the global financial crisis. When one of them falls in the sea, their financial PR seems to know more than she's letting on. Worricker soon learns the extent of their shady activities and he must act quickly to survive when links to British prime minister Alec Beasley come to light.
Release Date:2014-03-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:146
Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.
Release Date:2012-04-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Getsemani
Inspired by the behind-the-scenes of the British Labor Party and Tony Blair's team, the author reveals the brutal mechanisms of the game with and for power, the behind-the-scenes of big politics, full of corruption and hypocrisy. The rebellious 16-year-old daughter of the Minister of Internal Affairs causes a government crisis with her reckless behavior
Release Date:2011-10-17
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Page Eight
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.
Release Date:2011-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:299
Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
Release Date:2011-08-11
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
The Reader
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Release Date:2008-12-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3146
My Zinc Bed
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.
Release Date:2008-08-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:13
Art, Truth and Politics
Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.
Release Date:2006-03-01
Character:self
The Hours
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Release Date:2002-12-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1742
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more meets Lawrence of Arabia, and encounters the Arab Prince Faisal and a young Ho Chi Minh. Disillusioned by the hard and cynical realpolitik of international deal-making, he returns home to Princeton, New Jersey after a three-year absence, where he finds his father as cold and distant as ever, and discovers a detrimental change in his boyhood friend, Paul Robeson, caused by bigotry.
Release Date:2002-05-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:12
Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to cover the Second World War. Having given up photography in later life and virtually disowned her own work, Miller's extraordinary archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. George Melly, David Hare, friends, colleagues and her only son, Tony Penrose, trace the story of her unconventional life through her own remarkable pictures and photographs, as well as rarely seen archive footage.
Release Date:2001-08-25
Character:Self
Alan Clarke: His Own Man
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And yet Clarke only ever made 3 feature films. This documentary explores the life and career of an exceptional director - Alan Clarke.
Release Date:2000-09-18
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Via Dolorosa
In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening journey to Israel and Palestine.
Release Date:2000-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Himself
Arthouse
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
Release Date:1997-10-26
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
The Designated Mourner
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.
Release Date:1997-05-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
The Absence of War
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a general election.
Release Date:1995-05-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Secret Rapture
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Release Date:1993-09-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Damage
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Release Date:1992-12-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:606
Heading Home
The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.
Release Date:1991-01-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Strapless
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inhibitions released, the beautiful doctor learns that freedom has its own price.
Release Date:1989-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Paris by Night
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Release Date:1989-04-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
Plenty
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
Release Date:1985-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:41
Theatre Night
A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.
Release Date:1985-09-15
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Episode Count:1
Wetherby
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Release Date:1985-06-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:36
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest). She quickly realises that he works for the CIA and he knows that the fall of South Vietnam is very near.
Release Date:1983-11-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Dreams of Leaving
William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very strange summer ... Caroline said the best of her life.
Release Date:1980-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Licking Hitler
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Release Date:1978-01-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Knuckle
Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.
Release Date:1975-06-04
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Brassneck
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.
Release Date:1975-05-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Man Above Men
Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The judge sees himself as a protector of democracy, but his daughter, Susan, regards him as the greatest living argument for euthanasia.
Release Date:1973-03-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date:1970-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:8
The Devil's Legacy
British horror short from 1962.
Release Date:1962-01-01
Character:Lawrence Morell