Barry Hines
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- June 30, 1939
- Place of birth
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Died
- March 13, 2016
Biography
An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal.
He also wrote the television film Threads, which depicts the impact of a nuclear war on Sheffield.
Movies with Barry Hines
- Greg Davies: Looking for Kes 2019 · ★ 7.0
- Survivors: The Spectre of Threads 2025 · ★ 10.0