Andrew Davies (writer)
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Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter. He is the creator of the children's Marmalade Atkins television series and A Very Peculiar Practice, and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.
The popularity of his adaptation of Michael Dobbs's political thriller House of Cards was a significant influence in Dobbs's decision to write two sequels, which Davies also adapted for television.
In film, his most successful work has been collaborating on the screenplays for both of the Bridget Jones films, based on Helen Fielding's successful novels.
For many years Davies was a lecturer at the University of Warwick, an experience he drew upon in writing the campus based comedy series A Very Peculiar Practice.
He is also a prolific writer for children. His works in this field include the Guardian Award-winning Conrad's War, Alfonso Bonzo (book and television series), and the adventures of Marmalade Atkins (television series and numerous books). He also wrote the story Badger Girl for BBC's Look and Read series.
Andrew Davies' forthcoming projects include the screenplay for a film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and an adaption for the BBC of John Cleland's once banned erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749).[link]
Filmography
Television series and serials
- To Serve Them All My Days (1980)
- A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–88)
- Mother Love (1989)
- House of Cards (1990)
- To Play the King (1993)
- Middlemarch (1994)
- Game On (1995, with Bernadette Davis)
- Pride and Prejudice (1995)
- Wives and Daughters (1999)
- Tipping the Velvet (2002)
- He Knew He Was Right (2004)
- Falling (2005)
- Bleak House (2005)
- The Chatterley Affair (2006)
- The Line of Beauty (2006)
Television plays
- Who's Going to Take Me On? (1967)
- Is That Your Bod, Boy? (1970)
- No Good Unless It Hurts (1973)
- The Water Maiden (1974)
- Grace (1975)
- The Imp of the Perverse (1975)
- The Signalman (1976)
- A Martyr to the System (1976)
- Eleanor Marx (1977)
- Happy in War (1977)
- Velvet Glove (1977)
- Fearless Frank (1978)
- Renoir My Father (1978)
- Bavarian Night (1981)
- Heartattack Hotel (1983)
- Diana (1984)
- Pythons on the Mountain (1985)
- Inappropriate Behaviour (1987)
- Lucky Sunil (1988)
- Baby, I Love You (1988)
- Filipina Dreamers (1991)
- The Old Devils (1992)
- Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992)
- A Very Polish Practice (1992)
- Anna Lee (1993)
- Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
- A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (1994)
- Othello (2001)
- Boudicea (2003)
Cinema
- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001, with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis)
- [[Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (film)|Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason]] (2004, with Helen Fielding)
- Brideshead Revisited (2008)
External links
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