Actor

Barry Hines

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.7

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Movies: 12Series: 1Crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 217634

IMDb ID: nm0385632

Known for: Writing

Born: June 30, 1939

Died: March 13, 2016

Age: 76

Place of birth: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1970 - 2019

Years active: 50

Average TMDB rating: 7.5

Wikidata: Q4864315

Also known as

Melvin Barry Hines

Other jobs

Writer (10)Novel (2)

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Biography

An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire. He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal. He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Barry Hines.