John Braine

John Braine was born on Apr 13, 1922 in UK. John Braine's big-screen debut came with Room at the Top directed by Jack Clayton in 1958. John Braine is known for Room at the Top directed by Jack Clayton, Simone Signoret stars as Alice Aisgill and Laurence Harvey as Joe Lampton. The upcoming new movie John Braine plays is The Jealous God which will be released on Sep 09, 2005.

In early 1957 he was earning £12 a week in a Bradford public library but in June that year he was able to give up his job because he was making a small fortune from the sales of a book mostly written while he was in Grassington sanatorium recovering from TB. By 1960 Room at the Top had sold half a million copies. In October 1985 he published his 13th book 'These Golden Days' and commenced a Saturday column 'Share My Life' for the Yorkshire Post which continued until he died in the Autumn of 1986