J.M. Barrie

Writing

J.M. Barrie

Born — Died

1860-05-09 — 1937-06-19

Place of birth

Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

14 titles

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Nev…

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Captain Hook: The Cursed Tides poster
4.9

In the aftermath of a devastating defeat by his archnemesis Admiral Smee, Captain Hook finds refuge in the coastal town of Eldritch Landing.

Captain Hook: The Cursed Tides

2025

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8.0

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The Will

1921

The Doctor's Secret poster
7.0

Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she returns home to her husband and tries to carry on as if nothing had happened. Only the doctor who shows up at their house for dinner that night, and who dealt with the crash, knows the truth. A lost film.

The Doctor's Secret

1929

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan poster
NR

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the Fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain Hook await. A riot of magic, music and make-believe ensues.

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

2017

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"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.

Dear Brutus

1981

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7.0

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What Every Woman Knows

1917

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A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

The Little Minister

1915

The Doctor's Secret poster
7.0

Lady Lillian Gardner is unhappily married to rich businessman Richard Gardner. On a banquet she meets Hugo Paton whom she falls in love with.

The Doctor's Secret

1930

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The story is set in Scotland and centres on plain-looking Maggie Wylie, whose wealthy family fears she will become a spinster. To ensure her marriage, her family strikes a deal with ambitious, young railroad porter John Shand: they will fund his university education if he agrees to marry Maggie in five years. John honours the agreement, but does not initially love her. Maggie quietly uses her intellect and wit to guide John's political career and write his speeches. Their marriage is threatened when John is tempted by the beautiful aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.

What Every Woman Knows

1978

Mary Rose poster
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A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…

Mary Rose

1987

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8.0

When a Lord and family are shipwrecked on an island their butler becomes a king.

The Admirable Crichton

1918

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A showgirl's baby has an adventure with brigands.

Rosy Rapture

1915

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Lillian Garson, a woman of noble English ancestry who is married to a commoner, has written a letter to her husband, ending their marriage.

The doctor's secret

1930