Trevor Bentham was a British screenwriter and former stage manager who began his theatre career in the 1960s working at the Royal Court and Lyric Theatres in London. He co-wrote the screenplay for A Month by the Lake (1995), a romantic drama starring Vanessa Redgrave and based on a novella by H. E. Bates, directed by John Irvin, and later wrote the 1999 television film The Clandestine Marriage. Bentham met actor Nigel Hawthorne in 1968 while stage-managing at the Royal Court, and the two were partners for 22 years, living together in the Hertfordshire villages of Radwell and later Cold Christmas from 1979 until Hawthorne's death in 2001; the couple were active fundraisers for the Garden House Hospice in Letchworth and other local charities. Bentham later had a relationship with the dancer Donald MacLeary. He lived with muscular dystrophy in his later years and died in October 2025, at 82.
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