J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie was a playwright and novelist whose best known play was Peter Pan. When Barrie was six, his mother's favorite child David died in a skating accident on the eve of his fourteenth birthday. After his brother's death, Barrie did everything in his power to replace his brother and gain his mother's attention. Many of Barrie's stories were influenced by his mother and his own memories of Kirriemuir life. Barrie's lost childhood was re-awakened through the stories he wrote for the Llewelyn Davies' boys and the games he played with them. This acquaintance became the inspiration for Peter Pan, the imaginative story of a boy who never grew up and stays young and happy forever. The movie Finding Neverland is openly acknowledged as inspired by true and biographical events in the life of Barrie.

• 1902. The Little White Bird
• 1904: Peter Pan

• May 9, 1860 Born in Kirriemuir, Scotland

• 1867: Brother dies

• 1873: Attends Dumfries Academy

• 1882: Journalist for Nottingham Journal

• 1885: Moves to London

• 1894: Marries Mary Ansell

• 1897: Befriends and raises the Llewelyn Davies boys

• 1909: Divorces Mary Ansell

• 1913: Made a baronet in Great Britain.

• 1922: Member of the Order of Merit

• 1929: Gives the rights to Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

• 1937: Dies

• The majority of the following links are to IMDb, which has pop-ups

• IMDb: Complete J.M. Barrie Filmography

• 1934: The Little Minister

• 1937: Quality Street

• 1951: Darling, How Could You!

• 1953: Forever Female

• 1957: The Admirable Crichton

• 1978: The Lost Boys (TV mini series)

• 1991: Hook

• 2003: Peter Pan

• 2004: Finding Neverland