Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as "The Young Ones" and "Blackadder", as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals "We Will Rock You" (2002) and "Love Never Dies" (2010), the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and
Clint Eastwood in the 1980s Clint Eastwood in the 1980s Clint Eastwood directed his first television episode in the 1980s and made several of his most notable films. In 1985, Eastwood directed his first television production in the "Vanessa In The Garden", an episode of"Amazing Stories". It starred Harvey Keitel and Sondra Locke. This was Eastwood's first collaboration with writer/executive producer Steven Spielberg. (Spielberg later produced "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters from Iwo Jima"). Released on Wednesday, June 11, 1980, Eastwood directed and played the role of the main attraction in a traveling Wild West Show in the comedy film, "Bronco Billy". Biographer Richard