Roald Dahl

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1916 age 0

   Born

2. 1967 age 51

   CreditYou Only Live Twicescreenwriter

3. 1971 age 55

   CreditWilly Wonka & the Chocolate Factoryscreenwriter

4. 1990 age 74

   Died

5. 1996 age 74

   CreditMatildaproducer

6. 2005 age 74

   CreditCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryscreenwriter

• LBLeslie Bricusse2 titles
• MSMichael Shamberg1 title
• SSStacey Sher1 title
• DDDanny DeVito1 title
• AGAdam Godley1 title
• TWTracey Walter1 title
• HCHelena Bonham Carter1 title
• EDEmbeth Davidtz1 title
• CLChristopher Lee1 title
• GHGarrick Hagon1 title

• Spouse

  • PNPatricia Neal
  • FDFelicity Dahl

• Influenced by

  • CFC. S. Forester
  • RKRudyard Kipling

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

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  Photo:Hans van Dijk for AnefoCC BY-SA 3.0

• For her, this was always a blissful time of day. She knew he didn't want to speak much until the first drink was finished, and she, on her side, was content to sit quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house. She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel-almost as a sunbather feels the sun-that warm male glow that came out of him to her when they were alone together. She loved him for the way he sat loosely in a chair, for the way he came in a door, or moved slowly across the room with long strides. She loved the intent, far look in his eyes when they rested in her, the funny shape of the mouth, and especially the way he remained silent about his tiredness, sitting still with himself until the whiskey had taken some of it away.

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she learns how to behave in this world?

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Never before in the history of man has a race of people switched rapidly from being much pitied victims to barbarous murderers. Never before has a race of people generated so much sympathy around the world and then, in the space of a lifetime, succeeded in turning that sympathy into hatred and revulsion.

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Closing comments] Now is the time for the Jews of the world to follow the example of the Germans and become anti-Israeli. But do they have the conscience? And do they, I wonder, have the guts?

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [M]akes one wonder in the end what sort of people these Israelis are. It is like the good old Hitler and Himmler times all over again.

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Responding to criticism as to how he ended his Literary Review article] Perhaps I shouldn't have said that, but it came from my wartime experience [in the RAF], we saw almost none of them in the armed forces then. I mean if you and I were in a line moving towards what we knew were gas chambers I’d rather have a go at taking one of the guards with me; but they were always submissive.

  Roald Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0