Michael Frayn

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1933 age 0

   Born

2. 1986 age 53

   CreditClockwisescreenwriter

• JCJohn Cleese1 title
• PWPenelope Wilton1 title
• GFGeorge Fenton1 title
• PBPeter Boyle1 title
• ASAlison Steadman1 title
• SMStephen Moore1 title
• JCJohn Coquillon1 title
• VLVerity Lambert1 title
• CMChristopher Morahan1 title
• MCMichael Codron1 title

• Children

  • RFRebecca Frayn

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

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  Photo:Roger GreenCC BY-SA 2.0

• To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I should say that happiness is being where one is and not wanting to be anywhere else.

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.

  Michael Frayn, CC BY-SA 4.0