John Gay
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1492 – 1998
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
John Gay was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. He is best remembered for The Beggar's Opera (1728), a ballad opera. The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
actor
1969
No Way to Treat a Lady
writer
1968
The Power
writer
1968
The Last Safari
writer
1967
The Hallelujah Trail
writer
1965
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
writer
1963
Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera
writer
1963
How the West Was Won
writer
1962
Antony and Cleopatra
actor
1962
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
writer
1962
The Happy Thieves
writer
1961