Andrew Davies (screenwriter)

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Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Cardiff , Wales ) is a British teacher, author of books for children and young people and screenwriter who is best known for his adaptations of English literature for British television.

Life

Andrew Davies was born in Cardiff in 1936, where he attended Whitchurch Grammar School. After graduating in English from University College London in 1957, he became a teacher like his parents and taught at various London schools from 1958 to 1961. He then taught at Coventry College of Education and the University of Warwick in Coventry . In 1960 he wrote his first radio plays before turning to television, as well as writing plays, children's books and novels. However, he did not give up teaching until 1986 in order to devote himself fully to writing.

Since the mid-1990s, he has been considered the master of adapting English literature for film and television in Great Britain. His screenplay for the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995) with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name, received critical acclaim and was the basis for this film adaptation to become a street sweeper in both Great Britain and the United States developed. He then wrote the screenplays for television adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma (1996) with Kate Beckinsale , Shakespeare's Othello (2001), for Doctor Zhivago (2002) with Keira Knightley and for the BBC film adaptation of Austen's Mind and Emotion under the title Sense and Sensibility (2008).

His big screen works include Circle of Friends (1995) with Minnie Driver , The Tailor of Panama (2001) with Pierce Brosnan, and the comedies Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast (2001) and Bridget Jones - On the Edge des Wahnsinns (2004) with Renée Zellweger in the title role. In 2011 he wrote the screenplay for the literary film adaptation The Three Musketeers .

In 1979 he received the Guardian Award in the Children's Fiction category for his children 's book Conrad's War . Over the course of his career, he has received numerous other awards, including two Emmy Awards, four BAFTA TV Awards, three Awards from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain (including for pride and prejudice ) and an Evening Standard British Film Award for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast .

Since 1960 he has been married to former teacher Diana Lennox Huntley, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • The Fantastic Feats of Doctor Boox , 1972 - German: Let's do it, said Doctor Gluuk
  • Conrad's War , 1978 - German: Conrad's War
  • Marmalade and Rufus , 1980
  • Alfonso Bonzo , 1986
  • Getting Hurt , 1989 - German: guys like me
  • Poonam's Pets , 1990 (with his wife Diana Davies)
  • B. Monkey , 1992 - German: My name is B. Monkey

Stage plays

  • Can Anyone Smell the Gas? , 1972
  • The Shortsighted Bear , 1972
  • Filthy Fryer and the Woman of Mature Years , 1974
  • Linda Polan: Can You Smell the Gas ?, What Are Little Girls Made Of? , 1975
  • Rohan and Julia , 1975
  • Randy Robinson's Unsuitable Relationship , 1976
  • Teacher's Gone Mad , 1977
  • Going Bust , 1977
  • Fearless Frank , 1978
  • Brainstorming with the Boys , 1978
  • Battery , 1979
  • Diary of a Desperate Woman , 1979
  • Rose , 1980
  • Prin , 1990

Radio plays

  • 1964: The Hospitalization of Samuel Pellett
  • 1967: Getting the Smell of It
  • 1967: A Day in Bed
  • 1970: Curse on Them, Astonish Me!
  • 1971: Steph and the Man of Some Distinction
  • 1971: The Innocent Eye
  • 1972: The Shortsighted Bear
  • 1972: Steph and the Simple Life
  • 1976: Steph and the Zero Structure Lifestyle
  • 1980: Accentuate the Positive
  • 1984: Campus Blues

Scripts

Awards

BAFTA TV Award

Nominated:

  • 1990: Mother Love (with Ken Riddington and Simon Langton )
  • 1991: A House of Cards (with Ken Riddington and Paul Seed)
  • 1994: The Boot Street Band (with Angela Beeching, John Smith and Steve Attridge)
  • 1995: Middlemarch (with Louis Marks and Anthony Page )
  • 1996: Pride and Prejudice (with Sue Birtwistle and Simon Langton)
  • 1997: Game-On (with Geoffrey Perkins , Sioned Wiliam, John Stroud and Bernadette Davis)
  • 1999: Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair (together with Gillian McNeill and Marc Munden)
  • 2000: Wives and Daughters (with Sue Birtwistle and Nicholas Renton)
  • 2002: Othello (with Anne Pivcevic, Julie Gardner and Geoffrey Sax)
  • 2002: Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast (with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis )
  • 2003: Doctor Schiwago (together with Anne Pivcevic and Giacomo Campiotti )
  • 2006: Bleak House (for Best Screenwriter)

Won:

  • 1993: Anglo Saxon Attitudes (with Andrew Brown and Diarmuid Lawrence)
  • 1999: A Rather English Marriage (with Joanna Willett and Paul Seed)
  • 2002: The Way We Live Now (with Nigel Stafford-Clark and David Yates )
  • 2006: Bleak House (together with Nigel Stafford-Clark, Justin Chadwick and Susanna White in the category Best Drama Series)

Broadcasting Press Guild Award

Nominated:

  • 2006: Bleak House (Writer's Award)
  • 2007: The Beauty Line (Broadcasting Press Guild Award with Saul Dibb and Kate Lewis )
  • 2009: Klein Dorrit (Broadcasting Press Guild Award together with Anne Pivcevic, Rebecca Eaton and Lisa Osborne and Writer's Award)
  • 2009: Sense and Sensibility (Writer's Award)

Emmy

Nominated:

  • 1996: pride and prejudice
  • 2006: Bleak House

Won:

  • 1991: A house of cards
  • 2009: Little Dorrit

Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

Nominated:

  • 1992: A house of cards
  • 2009: Little Dorrit

Won:

  • 1992: Anglo Saxon Attitudes
  • 1994: Middlemarch
  • 1996: pride and prejudice

Further

  • 1979: Guardian Award for Conrad's War
  • 1980: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
  • 1981: Pye Color TV Award
  • 1987: Royal Television Society Award
  • 1999: FIPA D'Or at the Biarritz International Festival of Audiovisual Programming for Vanity Fair - Vanity Fair
  • 2002: Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Screenplay with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
  • 2002: London Critics' Circle Film Award for Best British Screenplay with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
  • 2002: Nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
  • 2002: Nomination for the USC Scripter Award with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis for Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast
  • 2002: Nomination for the Royal Television Society Award for The Way We Live Now
  • 2006: Royal Television Society Award for Bleak House
  • 2006: Nomination for the TV Quick Award together with Nigel Stafford-Clark for Bleak House
  • 2006: Banff Rockie Award at the Banff World Media Festival with Justin Chadwick, Nigel Stafford-Clark and Susanna White for Bleak House
  • 2009: Nomination for the Television and Radio Industries Club Award together with Lisa Osborne, Anne Pivcevic and Rebecca Eaton for Klein Dorrit

literature

  • Sarah Cardwell: Andrew Davies . Manchester University Press, 2005, 227 pp., ISBN 0-7190-6492-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John J. O'Connor: An England Where Heart and Purse Are Romantically United . In: The New York Times , January 13, 1996.
  2. ^ Soap Opera and Satire . In: Der Spiegel , February 19, 1996.
  3. ↑ Andrew Davies: Champion of the bodice ripper . In: The Telegraph , January 4, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Andrew Wynford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British novelist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cardiff , Wales