orig. Christopher Harris
born Dec. 18, 1907, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.
British playwright.
He worked as an actor, director, and playwright before achieving success with The Lady's Not for Burning (1948), an ironic medieval comedy in verse. Noted for his wit and his religious preoccupations, he wrote other verse plays, including Venus Observed (1950), A Sleep of Prisoners (1951), The Dark Is Light Enough (1954), and A Yard of Sun (1970). He also wrote several television plays and collaborated on the screenplays of Ben Hur (1959) and Barabbas (1962).