Prick Up Your Ears is a 1987 British film, directed by Stephen Frears,
about the playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell. The
screenplay was written by Alan Bennett, based on the biography by John
Lahr. The film stars Gary Oldman as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell,
Wallace Shawn as Lahr, and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay.Islington,
9 August 1967. Literary agent Peggy Ramsay knocks on the door of
playwright Joe Orton and his lover Kenneth Halliwell, but nobody
opens. She calls the police. They find the corpses of the two men. A
decade later theatre critic John Lahr visits Peggy Ramsey because he
wants to write Orton's biography. They find Orton's diaries, and Peggy
tells Lahr about Orton's life.Orton and Halliwell's relationship began
at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Orton started out as the
uneducated youth to Halliwell's older faux-sophisticate. As the
relationship progressed, however, Orton grew increasingly confident in
his talent while Halliwell's writing stagnated. They fell into a
parody of a traditional married couple, with Orton as the "husband"
and Halliwell as the long-suffering and increasingly ignored "wife" (a
situation exacerbated at a time when being a sexually active
homosexual was illegal). Orton was commissioned to write a screenplay
for The Beatles. Halliwell got carried away in preparing for a meeting
with the "Fab Four", but Orton was taken away for a meeting on his
own. Finally, in August 1967, a despondent Halliwell kills Orton and
commits suicide. Prick Up Your Ears Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter