Andrew Davies

Andrew Davies is acknowledged to be the most successful adapter of classic novels writing in film and television today. He began his career by writing radio plays, and then moved into writing for television, films, theatre, novels and children's books.

Andrew received credit on the screenplay for both Bridget Jones' Diary and the follow up film, The Edge of Reason, sharing credits on both of these with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis. He has adapted Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited for Ecosse Films and shared screenwriting credit with John Le Carre and John Boorman on The Tailor of Panama. The film of his book, B Monkey, was directed by Michael Radford for Scala Productions and he wrote the screenplay for Maeve Binchy's novel Circle of Friends which was directed by Pat O' Conner and starred Minnie Driver.

Andrew's other adaptation for television was of Winifred Holtby's "South Riding" for the BBC. It starred Anna Maxwell-Martin and David Morrissey with John Henshaw and Shaun Dooley.

Andrew's 14 part adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" (BBC) for which he won the Emmy Award for outstanding writing, transmitted in October 2008 sporting a stellar cast including Tom Courtenay, Matthew Macfadyen, Amanda Redman and Andy Serkis. This was followed by his adaptation of Sarah Waters' gothic novel "Affinity" for ITV1.

His acclaimed screenplay of "Pride and Prejudice" was transmitted on BBC 1 in the autumn of 1995 and received both the highest viewing figures of any BBC Classic Serial and the highest audience for any drama transmitted on the Arts & Entertainment Channel in the United States. The serial was produced by Sue Birtwistle and directed by Simon Langton.

His theatre writing credits include 1989's "Prin," which enjoyed a very successful run at the Lyric Hammersmith and at the Lyric Theatre in the West End. His earlier play, "Rose," starring Glenda Jackson, played to full houses at the Duke of York's in the West End and was subsequently produced on Broadway and in many other countries.
Andrew has written two novels for adults (Getting Hurt and B Monkey) as well as numerous children's books he has also written for children's television.

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