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Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops (28 November 1926 – 25 February 2024) was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist.
Born in 1926 and raised in Stepney Green in London's East End, the son of Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops was present at the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936. He was evacuated from London in 1939, and recounted that experience in episode two of Thames Television's TV series, The World at War, first broadcast in 1973.
His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British 'kitchen sink' drama. First novel, Awake For Mourning (1958), followed the next year and has been appraised by critic Stewart Home as "ahead of its time". Ken Worpole has described Kops' first volume of autobiography, The World Is A Wedding (1963), as "one of the most important post-war English autobiographies".
His subsequent plays include Enter Solly Gold (1962), Ezra (1981, about Ezra Pound), Playing Sinatra (1991) and The Dreams of Anne Frank (1992, about Anne Frank). He also wrote extensively for radio and television. His radio play Monster Man (1999) is about the creator of "King Kong", Willis O'Brien.
In 1971-2, Kops wrote two series of sitcom Alexander the Greatest for ATV.
Kops wrote the television movie script Just One Kid for director/producer John Goldschmidt; the film was broadcast on the ITV Network in 1974, and won a Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Kops then wrote the television film It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), about the Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943, also for John Goldschmidt, and this was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Drama Series.
In addition to plays, novels and autobiography, he published volumes of poetry, and also wrote travelogues, including a series of articles about a trip to the United States (1999) and another about a journey to China (2000), both written for The Guardian.
In 1956 Kops married Erica Eve Gordon; they had four children. The couple were the models for characters Mannie and Miriam Katz in Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners (1959).
Bernard Kops
Bernard Kops (28 November 1926 – 25 February 2024) was a British dramatist, memoirist, poet and novelist.
Born in 1926 and raised in Stepney Green in London's East End, the son of Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops was present at the Battle of Cable Street in October 1936. He was evacuated from London in 1939, and recounted that experience in episode two of Thames Television's TV series, The World at War, first broadcast in 1973.
His first play, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British 'kitchen sink' drama. First novel, Awake For Mourning (1958), followed the next year and has been appraised by critic Stewart Home as "ahead of its time". Ken Worpole has described Kops' first volume of autobiography, The World Is A Wedding (1963), as "one of the most important post-war English autobiographies".
His subsequent plays include Enter Solly Gold (1962), Ezra (1981, about Ezra Pound), Playing Sinatra (1991) and The Dreams of Anne Frank (1992, about Anne Frank). He also wrote extensively for radio and television. His radio play Monster Man (1999) is about the creator of "King Kong", Willis O'Brien.
In 1971-2, Kops wrote two series of sitcom Alexander the Greatest for ATV.
Kops wrote the television movie script Just One Kid for director/producer John Goldschmidt; the film was broadcast on the ITV Network in 1974, and won a Silver Hugo Award at the Chicago Film Festival. Kops then wrote the television film It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), about the Bethnal Green tube disaster of 1943, also for John Goldschmidt, and this was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Drama Series.
In addition to plays, novels and autobiography, he published volumes of poetry, and also wrote travelogues, including a series of articles about a trip to the United States (1999) and another about a journey to China (2000), both written for The Guardian.
In 1956 Kops married Erica Eve Gordon; they had four children. The couple were the models for characters Mannie and Miriam Katz in Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners (1959).