Куни, Рэй

Рэймонд Джордж Альфрэд Куни (Raymond George Alfred Cooney), OBE (родился 30 мая 1932 года) - английский драматург и актёр. Его величайшим успехом стала пьеса "Run For Your Wife", продержавшаяся 9 лет в лондонском Вест Энде, и это самая "долгоиграющая" комедия. Там он представил 17 своих постановок.[2]

Биография

Куни впервые вышел на сцену в 1946 году и сыграл во многих, and appeared in many of the Whitehall farces of Brian Rix throughout the fifties and sixties. It was during this time that he co-wrote his first play One For The Pot.

В соавторстве с Тони Хилтоном он написал сценарий для Британской телекомедии 1961 года What a carve up! с Сидом Джеймсом и Кеннетом Коннором в ролях.

Cooney co-wrote a farce with his son Michael, Tom, Dick and Harry. Cooney's farces combine a traditional British bawdiness with structural complication, as characters leap to assumptions, are forced to pretend to be things that they aren't, and often talk at cross-purposes to hilarious effect.

In 1983, Cooney created the Theatre of Comedy Company and became its artistic director. During his tenure it produced over twenty plays such as Pygmalion starring Peter O'Toole and John Thaw, Loot, and Run For Your Wife.

Cooney has also appeared on TV and in several movies, including a movie adaptation of Not Now Darling, which he co-wrote with John Chapman.

In 2005, Cooney was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to drama.

Личная жизнь

Cooney's son Michael is a screenwriter and wrote the original screenplay for the film Identity starring John Cusack.