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David Hines

b. 1945

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Born 1945. David Hines is a British screenwriter and writer.

David Hines (born 1945) is an English writer, author and screenwriter. He is the author of the screenplay of the film Whore, directed by Ken Russell.

Biography In 1957 Hines went to the William Morris School for the Arts. With the intention to become a dancer, in 1965 he moved to London and joined the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, a part of Brunel University. Two years later he worked with Stanley Kubrick as one of the character actors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He returned to the Rambert School in 1969 and the same year he became a member of the London Ballet company. The monologue has been presented as a theatrical drama in the whole of Europe and made into a film by Ken Russell entitled Whore.

In 1994 he published Unattended Baggage, a play about two brothers. Three years later he published A Leap into Madness, a monologue about Vaslav Nijinsky.

Hines lives in London and in Italy.

Partial list of books David Hines, Bondage, London, 1989 David Hines, Batman Can't Fly, Faber and Faber, 1997,

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1945, Yorkshire
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Brown University

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Who is David Hines?

writer

When was David Hines born?

David Hines was born in 1945 in Yorkshire.

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David Hines is a screenwriter and writer.

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David Hines is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: David Hines

· Wikidata: Q16106980

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