Christopher Hampton (Director) – Overview, Biography

Christopher Hampton
Name:Christopher Hampton
Occupation: Director
Gender:Male
Birth Day: January 26,
1946
Age: 76
Birth Place: Faial Island,
Portugal
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton was born on January 26, 1946 in Faial Island, Portugal (76 years old). Christopher Hampton is a Director, zodiac sign: Aquarius. Nationality: Portugal. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

He won an Academy Award in 1989 for writing the Dangerous Liaisons screenplay.

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

He studied German and French at the New College, Oxford.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1956

Hampton was born in Faial, Azores, to British parents Dorothy Patience (née Herrington) and Bernard Patrick Hampton, a marine telecommunications engineer for Cable & Wireless. His father’s job led the family to settle in Aden and Alexandria in Egypt, and later in Hong Kong and Zanzibar. During the Suez Crisis in 1956, the family had to flee Egypt under cover of darkness, leaving their possessions behind.

1964

From 1964, Hampton read German and French at New College, Oxford, as a Sacher Scholar. He graduated with a starred First Class Degree in 1968.

1966

Hampton became involved in the theatre while at Oxford University. The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) performed his original play When Did You Last See My Mother?, about adolescent homosexuality. He drew from his own experiences at Lancing. Hampton sent the work to the play agent Peggy Ramsay, who interested William Gaskill in it. The play was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London, and soon transferred to the Comedy Theatre; in 1966, Hampton was the youngest writer in the modern era to have a play performed in the West End. Hampton’s work on screenplays for the cinema also began around this time. He adapted this play for Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes, but a film version was never made.

1968

From 1968 to 1970, Hampton worked as the Resident Dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, and also as the company’s literary manager. He continued to write plays: Total Eclipse, about the French poets and lovers Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, was first performed in 1967 and at the Royal Court in 1968, but it was not well received at the time. The Philanthropist (1970) is set in an English university town and was influenced by Molière’s The Misanthrope. The Royal Court delayed a staging for two years because of an uncertainty over its prospects, but their production was one of the Royal Court’s more successful works up to that point. The production transferred to the Mayfair Theatre in London’s West End and ran for nearly four years, winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Comedy. It reached Broadway in New York City in 1971.

1973

His agent told him after this success: “You’ve got a choice: you can write the same play over and over for the next 30 years” or, alternatively, “you can decide to do something completely different every time”. He told her that he was writing a play about the “extermination of the Brazilian Indians in the 1960s”. Savages, set during the period of the military government and derived from an article “Genocide in Brazil” by Norman Lewis, was first performed in 1973. His first produced film adaptation, of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1973), was directed by Patrick Garland, and stars Anthony Hopkins and Claire Bloom.

1982

A sojourn in Hollywood led to an unproduced film adaptation of Marlowe’s play Edward II and the original script for Carrington. This period also inspired his play Tales from Hollywood (1980). This is a somewhat fictionalised account of exiled European writers living in the United States during the Second World War. (The lead character is based on Ödön von Horváth, who died in Paris in 1938). The play also explores the different philosophies of Horwath and the German playwright Bertolt Brecht (who lived in the United States in the 1940s). Hampton told The Guardian critic Michael Billington in 2007: “I lean towards the liberal writer, Horvath, rather than the revolutionary Brecht. I suppose I’m working out some internal conflict”. The play was commissioned by the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles; the Group first performed it in 1982. The play has been adapted in different versions for British and Polish television.

2012

Hampton’s translation into English of Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay’s Austrian musical Rebecca, based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel of the same name, was supposed to premiere on Broadway in 2012. As of January 2013, its future was uncertain. The scheduled production became mired in scandal when “several investors were revealed to be concoctions of a rainmaking middleman.”

2020

Hampton was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to drama.

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