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Christopher Hampton

  • Born: Jan 26, 1946 in Fayal, Azores
  • Occupation: Writer, Director
  • Active: '80s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Drama
  • Career Highlights: Dangerous Liaisons, Carrington, The Wolf at the Door
  • First Major Screen Credit: A Doll's House (1973)

Biography

One of Great Britain's most esteemed contemporary playwrights, Chris Hampton is best known in film for his Oscar-winning screenplay for Dangerous Liasons (1988). The film, adapted from his play, also won him a Writer's Guild award. Hampton was born to British parents in the Azores. He was an 18-year-old student at Oxford when he had his first play produced. He earned his reputation for excellence while working as the resident dramatist at the Royal Court in London between 1968 and 1970. While there, he proved himself equally adept at adapting classic literature into plays as well as writing his own. His stage adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses brought him international acclaim. The young playwright's first screenplay was an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House (1973). Hampton would not write another screenplay until he co-wrote Geschicten aus dern Weiner Wald/Tales From the Vienna Wood with Maximillian Schell (1979). In 1986, Hampton tried his hand at directing with the made-for-TV movie Hotel du Lac. Back in theater, Hampton earned acclaim for the libretto for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Billy Wilder's classic film Sunset Boulevard (1950). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

 
 
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"I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die."

"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate"

"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."

"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."

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Wikipedia: Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton (born January 26, 1946) is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film Dangerous Liaisons.

Hampton was born to British parents in Fayal, Azores and as a child, lived in Aden, Egypt and Zanzibar. At the age of 13 went to Lancing College, where he won house colours for boxing and distinguished himself as a sergeant in the CCF. In 1964 he went to New College, Oxford, as Sacher Scholar, to study German and French and graduated with a First Class Degree in 1968.

He became involved in theatre at Oxford University and moved on to become the youngest writer ever to have a play performed in the West End in 1966[citation needed]. From 1968-70 he worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

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  1. ^ Michael, Coveney (2006-03-04). Interview: Christopher Hampton. Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 2007-09-10.

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