William Hanley is an American author, playwright and screenwriter. Among other works, he has written the plays Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, Whisper in my good ear, and Mrs. Dally has a Lover, and the teleplays Who'll Save Our Children?, The Long Way Home, and The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank. He received an Edgar Award

Edgar Award

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 for his teleplay for the miniseries

Miniseries

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 Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987).

Personal life

His relatives include British novelists James Hanley (1897–1985) and Gerald Hanley

Gerald Hanley

Gerald Hanley was a British novelist and travel writer of Irish descent.-Biography:Gerald Hanley born on 7 February 1916, in Liverpool , was the youngest of a large, Irish-Liverpudleian Catholic, family...

 (1916–1992) (both born Liverpool) were brothers of his father, William Hanley. The actress Ellen Hanley was his sister. His parents were William Gerald (a housepainter) and Anne (Rodgers) Hanley.

Plays

• Whisper into My Good Ear (1962)
• Mrs. Dally Has a Lover (1962)
• Conversations in the Dark (1963)
• Slow Dance on the Killing Ground (1964)
• Today Is Independence Day (produced as Mrs. Dally) (1965)

Quotes

"The theme of responsibility seems to come and go through everything I've done. I think it will continue to do so, although I hope each play is drastically different from another. When I say responsibility I don't mean just responsibility to other people, but responsibility for one's own acts. I don't think there is anyone who isn't aware of the darkness I'm talking about in "Slow Dance." Most people have a tendency to turn away from it, and that is a negative act when the only constructive thing to do is to face it, and to see that there is the possibility of something better. If, in the final moments of the play, the audience has faced the darkness, and if, at least, the thought is planted that there might be something better, that's all that it's about."

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