- Trevor Bentham
Trevor Bentham (born in
England in 1943) is an English formerstage manager andscreenwriter . He is a screenwriter of works including "A Month by the Lake" (filmed in 1995) and "The Clandestine Marriage " (in 1998).For 22 years, he was the partner of the late renowned English actor Sir
Nigel Hawthorne . They met in 1968 when Bentham was stage-managing theRoyal Court Theatre . From 1979 until Hawthorne's death in 2001, they lived together in Radwell nearWare inHertfordshire , England (until a motorway service station was planned outside their drive), and a few miles away in a 15th century manor house that had belonged toChris Lowe of thePet Shop Boys . The two of them became fund raisers for the North Hertfordshire hospice and other local charities. Bentham was diagnosed withmuscular dystrophy in 1997.External links
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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=179461 Plot summary of "The Clandestine Marriage"]
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=135771 Plot summary of "A Month By the Lake"]
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