About Hugh Fleetwood
Born 1944. Hugh Fleetwood is a painter and screenwriter.
Hugh Fleetwood (born 1944) is a British writer and painter.
Biography At 18 Fleetwood went to live to France, and later moved to Italy at the age of 21. He remained in Italy for the next fourteen years. His 1977 novel The Order of Death formed the basis for the screenplay of the 1983 film Copkiller, starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon. Fleetwood adapted the book for the film with director Roberto Faenza and Ennio De Concini.
After his return to England, he had two further solo art shows. He currently lives in London.
In 2020, being unable to reach his studio to paint due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he finished work on seven novels begun in the previous years and revised two older novels. He published these nine books himself through the Amazon platform.
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British writer
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Hugh Fleetwood was born in 1944.
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