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
House of Cards
Executive Producer
Screen Two
Writer
Playhouse
Writer
Omnibus
1967
The Wednesday Play
Writer
BBC2 Play of the Week
Writer
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
Sense and Sensibility
Writer
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
- 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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