Christian playwrite of Ben Hur Dies
USA Today reports that playwright Christopher Fry, a Christian humanist who helped T.S. Eliot revive verse drama in the 1940s and wrote a number of epic films including Ben Hur, has died at the age of 97, his son said.
Fry died on June 30 in the hospital in Chichester, southern England, Tam Fry said. The cause of death was not announced.
As a Quaker, Fry was a conscientious objector and spent four years in the non-combat Pioneer Corps. A master of whimsical comic verse, Fry's best-known plays, The Lady's Not for Burning (1948) and Venus Observed (1949), have a sense of benign providence and hope for humanity that struck a chord in a world still coming to terms with news of the Holocaust and the use of the atom bomb.
His love of Jesus is clearly observed in his rewriting of William Wyler's film of Ben Hur and scripting Barabbas for Dino De Laurentis.
Fry died on June 30 in the hospital in Chichester, southern England, Tam Fry said. The cause of death was not announced.
As a Quaker, Fry was a conscientious objector and spent four years in the non-combat Pioneer Corps. A master of whimsical comic verse, Fry's best-known plays, The Lady's Not for Burning (1948) and Venus Observed (1949), have a sense of benign providence and hope for humanity that struck a chord in a world still coming to terms with news of the Holocaust and the use of the atom bomb.
His love of Jesus is clearly observed in his rewriting of William Wyler's film of Ben Hur and scripting Barabbas for Dino De Laurentis.
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