What English writer starred in Attracta?
Wendy Hiller
Attracta (film)
Attracta is a 1983 Irish drama film directed by Kieran Hickey and starring Wendy Hiller, Kate Thompson and Joe McPartland.
 It was based on a short story by William Trevor.
Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years.
 The writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation "Rating the Movie Stars", described her as "a no-nonsense actress who literally took command of the screen whenever she appeared on film".
 Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
My Summer with Des
My Summer with Des is a 1998 TV movie comedy drama created by English writer Arthur Smith.
 Shown to coincide with the beginning of World Cup 1998, the story is set during the European football championships in 1996, where football fan Martin finds his life is going from bad to worse after losing his job and splitting up with his girlfriend.
 It starred Neil Morrissey and Des Lynam, with Rachel Weisz playing the role of his love-interest, who seems to have the ability to travel through time and know the outcome of the tournament's matches before they happen.
 At one point Neil Morrissey's character asks her to take him straight to the semi-final between England and Germany, which they then arrive at in the next scene. Katharine Tynan
Katharine Tynan (23 January 1859 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry.
 After her marriage in 1898 to the English writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof.
 Of their three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982) was also known as a writer. Frank Tuohy
John Francis ("Frank") Tuohy, (2 May 1925 – 11 April 1999) was an English writer and academic.
 Born in London, he attended Stowe School and went on to read Moral Sciences and English at King's College, Cambridge.
 On completion of his studies, he worked in numerous academic posts under the auspices of the British Council.
 This included postings in Finland, Brazil and Poland.In the 1950s, in the British Council School of São Paulo, Brazil, he ran a memorable course on The War Poets (WWI),introducing Stephen Spender and his contemporaries.
 His posting in Poland provided his inspiration for his 1965 novel "The Ice Saints".
 The book received considerable critical acclaim and was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
 Tuohy died in Shepton Mallet, Somerset in 1999 at a time when he was working on the uncompleted manuscript for a new novel following many years of writer's block. Elizabeth Moxon
Elizabeth Moxon (fl.
 1740–1754) was an English writer known for her influential cookery book: "English Housewifry".
 She has been called one of "the female pioneers of English culinary writing". Stephen Wakelam
Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
 After Cambridge University, he was an English Teacher and Head of Department in South Yorkshire until he became a full-time writer in 1976.
 He was Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981-1984 and then tutored young playwrights at the National Theatre Studio in the 1990s.
 He has written over forty performed plays, at first mainly in television then primarily on radio.
 His subjects are almost exclusively biographical, covering a broad range of interests.
 Wakelam was The Royal Literary Society Writer in Residence at Universities in Leeds and Kent, 2009-12.
 From January 2015 he is Writer in Residence at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham. Alan Moore
Alan Moore ( ; born 18 November 1953) is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books including "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell".
 Frequently described as the best graphic novel writer in history, he has been widely recognised by his peers and by critics.
 He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Aleko Lilius
Aleko Axel August Eugen Lilius (2 April 1890 in Saint Petersburg, Russia – 24 June 1977 in Helsinki, Finland) was an explorer, free-lance writer and photographer, variously described as an “English journalist,” “Russian-Finnish,” “an English writer of Finnish origins,” “a United States citizen of Finnish origin,” a “Swedish journalist and adventurer,” and an “intrepid American journalist.”
 He was also a convicted fraudster.
 A lawsuit involving Lilius in the Philippines in 1934 Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 <nowiki>[</nowiki>OS 7 September]  – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
 Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".
 He is also the subject of the biography, "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell.