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Barry Hines
Writing
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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 14
TMDB ID: 217634
IMDb ID: nm0385632
Known for: Writing
Born: June 30, 1939
Died: March 13, 2016
Age: 76
Place of birth: Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1970 - 2019
Years active: 50
Average TMDB rating: 7.53
Wikidata: Q4864315
Also known as
Melvin Barry Hines
Frequent jobs
Writer (12)Novel (2)
Biography
An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire. He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal. He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.
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Novel
Kes
1970 • Movie
Writer
Threads
1985 • Movie
Writer
Billy's Last Stand
1971 • Movie
Writer
Born Kicking
1992 • Movie
Novel
The Gamekeeper
1980 • Movie
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Shooting Stars
1990 • Movie
Writer
Looks and Smiles
1981 • Movie
Writer
Two Men from Derby
1976 • Movie
Writer
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 • Movie
as Self (archive Footage)
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019 • Movie
Writer
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 • Movie
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Speech Day
1973 • Movie
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Writer
Born Kicking
1992 • Movie
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Shooting Stars
1990 • Movie
Writer
Threads
1985 • Movie
Writer
Looks and Smiles
1981 • Movie
Novel
The Gamekeeper
1980 • Movie
Writer
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 • Movie
Writer
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 • Movie
Writer
Two Men from Derby
1976 • Movie
Writer
Speech Day
1973 • Movie
Writer
Billy's Last Stand
1971 • Movie
Novel
Kes
1970 • Movie
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