Person
Andrew Davies
Writing · Born 1936-09-20 · Rhiwbina, Wales, UK
Biography
Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Bleak House and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.
Known for
Play for Today
Writer
Omnibus
1967
House of Cards
Executive Producer
Playhouse
Writer
Screen Two
Writer
The Wednesday Play
Writer
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
BBC2 Play of the Week
Writer
Bridget Jones's Diary
Screenplay
Pride and Prejudice
Writer
Filmography
- 2022Remembers…Self
- 2020A Suitable BoyWriter
- 2019SanditonCreator
- 2018Andrew Davies: Rewriting the ClassicsHimself
- 2018Les MisérablesWriter
- 2016War and PeaceWriter
- 2014A Poet in New YorkWriter
- 2014Katharine Hepburn: The Great KateDirector
- 2014QuirkeScreenplay
- 2013House of CardsExecutive Producer
- 2013Mr SelfridgeCreator
- 2011The Three MusketeersScreenplay
- 2011South RidingWriter
- 2010Drama Trails
- 2009Sleep with MeScreenplay
- 2008AffinityWriter
- 2008Little DorritScreenplay
- 2008Brideshead RevisitedScreenplay
- 2008A Room with a ViewWriter
- 2008The Other Boleyn GirlScript Consultant
- 2008Sense and SensibilityWriter
- 2007A Room with a ViewScreenplay
- 2007Northanger AbbeyWriter
- 2007Fanny HillScreenplay
- 2007Fanny HillTeleplay
- 2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasSelf
- 2007The Diary of a NobodyWriter
- 2006The Line of BeautyAdaptation
- 2006The Chatterley AffairWriter
- 2005Bleak HouseWriter
- 2005FallingScreenplay
- 2004Bridget Jones: The Edge of ReasonScreenplay
- 2004He Knew He Was RightWriter
- 2003BoudicaWriter
- 2002Tipping the VelvetScreenplay
- 2002Doctor ZhivagoWriter
- 2002Daniel DerondaWriter
- 2001OthelloWriter
- 2001The Way We Live NowWriter
- 2001Bridget Jones's DiaryScreenplay
- 2001The Tailor of PanamaScreenplay
- 2000Take a Girl Like YouDramaturgy
- 1999Wives and DaughtersWriter
- 1999B. MonkeyNovel
- 1998A Rather English MarriageTeleplay
- 1998Vanity FairWriter
- 1998Bill's New FrockWriter
- 1998Getting HurtWriter
- 1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll FlandersWriter
- 1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll FlandersWriter
- 1996EmmaScreenplay
- 1996WildernessWriter
- 1995The Final CutWriter
- 1995Pride and Prejudice: From Page to ScreenSelf
- 1995Pride and PrejudiceWriter
- 1995Circle of FriendsWriter
- 1995Game OnWriter
- 1994A Few Short Journeys of the HeartWriter
- 1994MiddlemarchWriter
- 1993Harnessing PeacocksWriter
- 1993To Play the KingWriter
- 1993Anna Lee: HeadcaseWriter
- 1992A Very Polish PracticeWriter
- 1992Anglo Saxon AttitudesWriter
- 1992The Old DevilsWriter
- 1991Filipina DreamgirlsWriter
- 1991Billy Webb's Amazing StoryCharacters
- 1990House of CardsScreenstory
- 1990Alfonso BonzoWriter
- 1989Ball-Trap On The Cote SauvageWriter
- 1989A Private LifeWriter
- 1989Screen OneWriter
- 1988Lucky SunilWriter
- 1988Consuming PassionsScreenplay
- 1987Inappropriate BehaviourWriter
- 1986A Very Peculiar PracticeWriter
- 1986Time After TimeWriter
- 1985Pythons on the MountainWriter
- 1985Screen TwoWriter
- 1984DianaWriter
- 1982Educating MarmaladeCreator
- 1981Dark TowersCreator
- 1981Bavarian NightWriter
- 1980To Serve Them All My DaysWriter
- 1979The Legend of King ArthurWriter
- 1978Renoir, My FatherWriter
- 1978Fearless FrankWriter
- 1977BBC2 Play of the WeekWriter
- 1977The Velvet GloveWriter
- 1976The SignalmanWriter
- 1976A Martyr to the SystemWriter
- 1975The Imp of the PerverseAdaptation
- 1975GraceWriter
- 1974PlayhouseWriter
- 1974Bedtime StoriesWriter
- 1973Sporting ScenesWriter
- 1973Centre PlayWriter
- 1971A Ghost Story for ChristmasWriter
- 1970Play for TodayWriter
- 1970Is That Your Body, BoyWriter
- 1967Omnibus
- 1965Thirty-Minute TheatreWriter
- 1964The Wednesday PlayWriter
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