Look Back in Anger (1980 film) Look Back in Anger (1980 film) Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play "Look Back in Anger". "Look Back in Anger" is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with
John Osborne (barrister) and ungratefully". His prestige had sunk so low that his office was offered to Sir John Meade, who had previously been regarded as ineligible for any Crown appointment on the ground that his wife was a Roman Catholic. Osborne was dismissed from office in November 1692 and died suddenly soon afterwards. He had married a daughter of his uncle William Draper: he is not known to have had any children. John Osborne (barrister) John Osborne (c.1630-1692) was an English barrister and Law Officer who spent much of his life in Ireland. He was the only surviving son of the celebrated