Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (nama lahir Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) adalah seorang pengarang, pembuat drama dan penulis naskah. Ia dikenal atas drama-dramanya untuk panggung Inggris serta skenario untuk The Dresser dan The Pianist.
| Sir Ronald Harwood | |
|---|---|
| Lahir | Ronald Horwitz 9 November 1934 Cape Town, Uni Afrika Selatan |
| Meninggal | 8 September 2020 (umur 85) Sussex, Inggris |
| Pekerjaan | Penulis, penulis skenario |
| Tahun aktif | 1960–2015 |
| Suami/istri | Natasha Riehle (m. 1959; meninggal 2013) |
Kehidupan pribadi sunting
Ia bersekolah di Seapoint Boys' High School di daerah Cape Town. Ia pindah ke Inggris pada tahun 1951. Pada tahun 1959, ia menikah dengan Natasha Riehle (1938–2013), seorang keturunan bangsawan Rusia. Mereka memiliki tiga anak: Antony (lahir 1960), Deborah (lahir 1963), dan Alexandra (lahir 1966).
Aktor Sir Antony Sher adalah sepupunya. Ia adalah saudara dari kritikus tari Afrika Selatan Eve Borland.
Harwood meninggal di rumahnya di Sussex pada 8 September 2020, pada usia 85 tahun.
Bibliografi sunting
Drama panggung sunting
- March Hares (Liverpool, 1964)
- Country Matters (69 Theatre Company, Manchester, 1969)
- The Good Companions (musikal oleh André Previn dan Johnny Mercer), libreto (Her Majesty's Theatre, 1974)
- The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, adaptasi dari novel karya Evelyn Waugh (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester dan Round House, London, 1977)
- A Family (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester dan Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1978)
- The Dresser (Royal Exchange, Manchester dan Queen's Theatre, 1980; Duke of York's Theatre, 2005)
Skenario film sunting
- Private Potter (1962)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
- Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
- Eyewitness (1970)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1971)
- Operation Daybreak (1975)
- Evita Peron (1981) (film televisi)
- The Dresser (1983) (juga produser)
- The Doctor and the Devils (1985) (dari naskah oleh Dylan Thomas)
- The Browning Version (1994)
- Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
- Taking Sides (2001)
- The Pianist (2002)
- The Statement (2003)
- Being Julia (2004)
- Oliver Twist (2005)
- Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
- Australia (2008)
- Quartet (2012)
Referensi sunting
- "Lady Harwood (1938–2013)". Peerage News.
- "Final curtain for Eve Borland – dancer, teacher, critic." (21 August 2007) The Cape Times, Cape Town
- Singh, Anita (8 September 2020). "Sir Ronald Harwood, Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, dies at 85". The Daily Telegraph. Diakses tanggal 8 September 2020.
- "Stage review of the 2004-5 revival of The Dresser".
Bacaan tambahan sunting
- Who's Who in the Theatre 17th edition, Gale (1981) ISBN 0-8103-0235-7
- Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, 4th edition, HarperCollins (2006) ISBN 0-00-716957-4
- Sydney Robinson, W., Speak Well of Me: the authorized biography of Ronald Harwood, London (2017)
- Theatre Record and its annual Indexes
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, Oxford (1996) ISBN 0-19-212271-1
Pranala luar sunting
- Ronald Harwood di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
- Ronald Harwood di Internet Broadway Database
- AUSTRALIA: a Baz Luhrmann film
- part of the BAFTA Screenwriters on Screenwriting series