John Osborne provincial touring company. Osborne tried his hand at writing plays, co-writing his first, "The Devil Inside Him", with his mentor Stella Linden, who then directed it at the Theatre Royal in Huddersfield in 1950. In June 1951 he also married Pamela Lane. His second play "Personal Enemy" was written with Anthony Creighton (with whom he later wrote "Epitaph for George Dillon" staged at the Royal Court in 1958). "Personal Enemy" was staged in regional theatres before he submitted "Look Back in Anger". Written in 17 days in a deck chair on Morecambe pier where Osborne was performing in a creaky
John Osborne Common Prayer (he had returned to the Church of England in about 1974). In his latter years, Osborne published two remarkably frank volumes of autobiography, "A Better Class of Person" (Osborne, 1981) and "Almost a Gentleman" (Osborne, 1991). "A Better Class of Person" (1985) was filmed by Thames Television featuring Eileen Atkins and Alan Howard as his parents and Gary Capelin and Neil McPherson as Osborne. It was nominated for the Prix Italia. At his memorial service in 1995, a playwright of the next generation, David Hare, said: His last play was "Déjàvu" (1991), a sequel to "Look Back in