Hodge, John, 1964-

LC control no.	n 97026049
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PR6058.O289
Personal name heading	Hodge, John, 1964- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	London (England)
Birth date	1964
Place of birth	Glasgow (Scotland)
Profession or occupation	Screenwriters Dramatists Physicians
Found in	Trainspotting & Shallow grave, 1996: t.p. (John Hodge) Brit. Lib., 03-12-97: (hdg.: Hodge, John, 1964- (Uk)0571179681) Wikipedia, via WWW, April 14, 2017 (John Hodge (screenwriter); John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter and dramatist, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting into the script for the film of the same title; raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh; Hodge started writing screenplays after meeting producer Andrew Macdonald at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1991; he moved to London after writing Shallow Grave and gave up medicine to concentrate on writing; his films include Shallow Grave (1994), Trainspotting (1996) A Life Less Ordinary (1997), The Beach (2000), The Final Curtain (2002), and the short film Alien Love Triangle (2002); most of his films are directed by Danny Boyle; Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, and A Life Less Ordinary all starred Ewan McGregor)
Associated language	eng