Brian Clark

Brian Robert Clark (3 June 1932 – 16 November 2021) was a British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his play Whose Life Is It Anyway?, which he later adapted for cinema.

Early life and education Clark was born on 3 June 1932 in Bristol, United Kingdom, the son of a blacksmith.

He attended Bristol Grammar School, leaving at 16. Clark was educated at the University of Nottingham.

Career Clark taught in schools, colleges and universities and was a member of the Drama Department at the University of Hull from 1968 to 1972.

In 1970, he sold a television play, Rubber?. Some years after its television production, he adapted the script for the stage. The reworked version won a Society of West End Theaters Award in 1978. Later that year, he brought the play to the United States, first at the Folger in Washington, D.C., followed by its Broadway debut the following year.

In 1972, his script Whose Life is it Anyway?, exploring the theme of assisted suicide, was produced on TV for ITV Saturday Night Theatre. Clark subsequently adapted the play for the stage – in which form it ran in London and on Broadway – then into a film of the same name, which was released in 1981. Prolific English actor Michael Maloney made his West End debut in this play.

Death Clark lived in Brighton with his second wife, a writer and therapist, in later life. He died from an aortic aneurysm on 16 November 2021, at the age of 89. 1985 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature