Biography
Barrie Keeffe was an English playwright and screenwriter. Born in London in 1945, he grew up in the east of the city and worked as a journalist on the Stratford Express from 1964 to 1975 before becoming a full-time dramatist.
He wrote numerous stage plays in the 1970s, including Gotcha (1976), the Barbarians trilogy (1977) and Sus (1979). His best-known screen credit is the original screenplay for the gangster film The Long Good Friday (1980), directed by John Mackenzie and starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film adaptation of Sus.
Keeffe was writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978 and received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his work on The Long Good Friday. He died in London in 2019.
