David Hines (born 1945) is an English writer, author and screenwriter. He is the author of the

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of the film ''

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'', directed by

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Biography

In 1957 Hines went to the

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School for the Arts. With the intention to become a

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, in 1965 he moved to London and joined the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, a part of

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/ref> Two years later he worked with

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as one of the character actors in '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. He returned to the Rambert School in 1969 and the same year he became a member of the

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company. After his wedding in 1967, he started working for the

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and for the

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. In 1976 Hines divorced his wife. Subsequently, he worked for a film company called the Scimitar Films, but he resigned with the aim to write more novels and plays, working in the meantime as a part-time

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. His best known work is ''Bondage'', a prize-winning

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focused on a night in the life of a

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entitled ''Whore''. In 1994 he published ''Unattended Baggage'', a play about two brothers. Three years later he published ''A Leap into Madness'', a monologue about

Vaslav Nijinsky Vaslav (or Vatslav) Nijinsky (; rus, Вацлав Фомич Нижинский, Vatslav Fomich Nizhinsky, p=ˈvatsləf fɐˈmʲitɕ nʲɪˈʐɨnskʲɪj; pl, Wacław Niżyński, ; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a ballet dancer and choreog ...

. Hines lives in London and in Italy.

Partial list of books

*David Hines, ''Bondage'', London, 1989 *David Hines, ''Batman Can't Fly'', Faber and Faber, 1997,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hines, David 1945 births Living people English screenwriters English male screenwriters English dramatists and playwrights English male dramatists and playwrights