Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton (born January 26, 1946 to British parents in Fayal, Azores) is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film Dangerous Liaisons.

As a child, Hampton lived in Aden, Egypt and Zanzibar and at the age of 13 went to Lancing College, where he won house colours for boxing and distinguished himself as a sergeant in the CCF. In 1964 he went to Oxford, New College as Sacher Scholar, to study German and French and graduated with a First Class Degree in 1968. He became involved in theatre at Oxford University and moved on to become the youngest writer ever to have a play performed in the West End in 1966. From 1968-70 he worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court in London.

Bibliography

INCOMPLETE

1964 - When Did You Last See My Mother?
1967 - Total Eclipse
1969 - The Philanthropist
1974 - Savages
1975 - Treats
1984 - Tales From Hollywood

Adaptations

1977 - "Tales from the Vienna Woods", Odon von Horvath
1985 - "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" from the novel by Choderlos de Laclos for the Royal Shakespeare Company
"Tartuffe", Moliere
"Sunset Boulevard" for Andrew Lloyd Webber

Filmography

1973 - A Doll's House(screenwriter) starring Claire Bloom
1979 - Tales from the Vienna Woods (screenwriter) (directed by Maximilian Schell)
1981 - The History Man (screenwriter) for the BBC
1983 - Beyond The Limit (screenwriter)
1984 - ''The Honorary Consul based on a novel by Graham Greene starring Michael Caine and Richard Gere
1986 - The Wolf At The Door (screenwriter)
1986 - Hotel Du Lac (screenwriter/ director)
1986 - The Good Father (screenwriter) based on a novel by Peter Prince
1986 - Arriving Tuesday (producer)
1988 - Dangerous Liaisons (play author/ screenwriter/ co-producer) directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close and Michelle Pfeiffer
1989 - Cookie (screenwriter)
1995 - Carrington (screenwriter)
1989 - The Ginger Tree for BBC
1989 - Tales From Hollywood for BBC
1995 - Total Eclipse (play author/ screenwriter/ actor: The Judge) directed by Agnieszka Holland, starring Leonardo Di Caprio and David Thewlis
1996 - Mary Reilly (screenwriter) based on the Valerie Martin novel about Dr. Jekyll's housemaid, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Julia Roberts and John Malkovich
1996 - The Secret Agent (screenwriter/ director) based on a Joseph Conrad short story, starring Gérard Depardieu, Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette
2002 - The Quiet American (screenwriter)
2003 - Imagining Argentina (screenwriter/ director)
2007 - Atonement (screenwriter)

Translation Work

1973 - A Doll's House
1996 - Art by Yasmina Reza
2000 - Conversations After A Burial by Yasmina Reza
1981 - The History Man (screenwriter)

External links

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/510453/
http://members.iconn.net/~ab234/Plays/Les_Liaisons_Dangereuses/LLDHamptonbio.html
Guardian Profile: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4173071,00.html