Look Back in Anger (1959 film) Look Back in Anger (1959 film) Look Back in Anger is a 1959 British drama film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson. The film is based on John Osborne's eponymous play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter) his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison) and her snooty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The character of Ma Tanner, only referred to in the play, is here brought to life by Edith Evans as a dramatic device to emphasise the class
John Osborne (journalist) John Osborne (journalist) John Osborne (25 September 1842 – 1 September 1908) was an Australian journalist and Methodist minister. He was born at Wollongong to builder Robert Osborne and Rebecca Musgrave. He became a solicitor's clerk before joining the Wesleyan ministry. On 9 April 1867 he married Elizabeth Wastell, and they soon both departed to Samoa as missionaries. He was sent to Fiji in 1869 and Rotuma in 1870, before his wife's health forced him to return to New South Wales. He was a minister at Adelong, Yass, Newtown and Newcastle before his appointment to York Street, the colony's leading