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Ben Elton (born 1959)
actor, comedian, playwright, lyricist, stand-up comedian, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, director, film producer
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940)
playwright, physician, satirist, librettist, journalist, theatrical director, actor, surgeon, biographer
![OEuvres, II : Le Maitre et Marguerite et autres romans suivi de Theatre [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8374143-M.jpg)
Stephen Fry (born 1957)
actor, comedian, television presenter, autobiographer, director, television actor, stage actor, film actor, journalist, film director, improviser, performing artist, narrator
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
![Two screenplays: The blood of a poet [and] The testament of Orpheus](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/7099262-M.jpg)
Charlie Higson (born 1958)
actor, comedian, singer, television actor
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008)
actor, film director, audiobook narrator, literary critic, essayist, agricultural engineer, director
S. E. Hinton (born 1948)
autobiographer, film actor
Donald F. Glut (born 1944)
film director, film producer, actor, singer
