Alun Owen

Alun Owen was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter, and actor, working predominantly in television. Growing up in Liverpool, Owen began his career as an actor before transitioning to writing for television and theatre in the 1950s.

Owen’s first staged play, The Rough and Ready Lot, staged at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, was adapted for television and broadcast on the BBC in 1959. Progress to the Park was staged at the Royal Court in 1959 and later produced by Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1960. He continued to write for the screen and famously wrote the screenplay for The Beatle’s feature film A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film demonstrates Owen’s naturalistic, witty, and often irreverent dialogue.