Robert Bolt Biography

Fast Facts

• Received the award from the Queen’s Honours List for commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972
• After graduating from Manchester Grammar School, he worked in an insurance office but later on earned a degree in history at Manchester University
• During the time that he was schoolmaster at Millfield and Devon, he wrote a dozen radio plays that were later broadcasted
• Most of his works are dramatic and place characters in tense situations in the face of a prevailing society
• His final piece was the script "Political Animal," which later became a TV movie, and was based on the attempted assassination of President Ronald Regan and the process surrounding it
• After a post-graduate year at Exeter University, he became schoolmaster at a village school in Devon and then transferred to Millfield
• Was married four different times, two of those marriages being to the same woman, actress Sarah Miles