Graham Greene

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1904 age 0

   Born

2. 1949 age 45

   CreditThe Third Manscreenwriter

3. 1973 age 69

   CreditDay for Night

4. 1991 age 86

   Died

• DSDavid O. Selznick1 title
• OWOrson Welles1 title
• JCJoseph Cotten1 title
• RBRobert Brown1 title
• BLBernard Lee1 title
• NBNathalie Baye1 title
• THTrevor Howard1 title
• GDGeorges Delerue1 title
• CRCarol Reed1 title
• AKAlexander Korda1 title

• Influenced by

  • HJHenry James

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Studied under, Taught.

• Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human condition.

  Graham Greene, CC BY-SA 4.0