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 and the 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair. is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rhiwbina electoral ward in Cardiff View Of Rhiwbina Village Rhiwbina (Welsh: Rhiwbeuno or Rhiwbeina - Rhiw slope + Beuno Saint Beuno) is a prosperous northern suburb of Cardiff, Wales. ... Cardiff (English:  , Welsh: ) is the capital, largest and core city of Wales. ... This article is about the country. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Marmalade Atkins is a fictional television character played by the late Charlotte Coleman. ... A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ... Pride and Prejudice is a 1995 British television drama serial, adapted from Jane Austens novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. ... Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor. ... Jennifer Ehle (born December 29, 1969) is a stage and screen actress best known for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice. ... William Makepeace Thackerays novel Vanity Fair (1847 - 1848) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. ...

Davies also wrote three series of the laddish sitcom Game On for BBC2 between 1995 and 1998. Game On is a British sitcom revolving around the lives of three 20-somethings from Herne Bay sharing a flat in Battersea, London. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and...

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. Michael Dobbs (born 1948) is a British politician and author of books and TV, mainly political fiction. ... House of Cards was a political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ...

In film, he has collaborated on the screenplays for both of the Bridget Jones films, based on Helen Fielding's successful novels. Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Bridget Jones is a fictional character created by English writer Helen Fielding. ... Helen Fielding (born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British author, best known as the author of the novel Bridget Joness Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The Independent and...

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. The University of Warwick coat of arms The University of Warwick is one of the leading universities in the United Kingdom. ... A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ...

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 stories Dark Towers and Badger Girl for the BBC TV Look and Read series of programmes for schools audiences. The Guardian Childrens Fiction Prize or Guardian Award is a prominent award for works of childrens literature by British or Commonwealth authors, published in the UK during the preceding year. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Marmalade Atkins is a fictional television character played by the late Charlotte Coleman. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... Look and Read is a BBC television programme for primary schools, aimed at improving childrens literacy skills. ...

Andrew Davies' forthcoming projects include the screenplay for a film version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, an adaptation for the BBC of John Cleland's once banned erotic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) and a film version of Annie Griffin's Channel 4 situation comedy The Book Group. Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... John Cleland (baptised September 24, 1709 – January 23, 1789) was an English novelist most famous and infamous as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. ... Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, also known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. ... Annie Griffin is an American writer and director. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... // Summary The Book Group was a situation comedy, aired on Channel 4 between 2001 and 2002, and ran for two series. ...

Filmography

Television series and serials

• To Serve Them All My Days (1980)
• Dark Towers (Look And Read: 1981)
• Diana (1984)
• Badger Girl (Look And Read: 1984)
• A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–88)
• Mother Love (1989)
• House of Cards (1990)
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992)
• The Old Devils (1992)
• To Play the King (1993)
• Middlemarch (1994)
• Game On (1995, with Bernadette Davis)
• Pride and Prejudice (1995)
• The Final Cut (1995)
• Wilderness (1996)
• Moll Flanders (1992)
• Bill's New Frock (1997)
• Vanity Fair (1998)
• Wives and Daughters (1999)
• Take A Girl Like You (2000)
• The Way We Live Now (2001)
• Tipping the Velvet (2002)
• He Knew He Was Right (2004)
• Falling (2005)
• Bleak House (2005)
• The Line of Beauty (2006)
• Northanger Abbey (2007), part of ITV's Jane Austen Season
• A Room with a View (2007)
• Fanny Hill (2007)
• Little Dorrit (TBA)
• The Spoils of Poynton (TBA)

To Serve Them All My Days is a novel by British author R. F. Delderfield. ... Diana was a BBC TV series first broadcast in 1984 and adapted from two books by R. F. Delderfield. ... A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ... House of Cards was a political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ... This article is confusing for some readers, and needs to be edited for clarity. ... The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1986. ... Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and the King (Michael Kitchen) in the BBC Television Drama To Play the King. ... See also Middlemarch, New Zealand. ... Game On is a British sitcom revolving around the lives of three 20-somethings from Herne Bay sharing a flat in Battersea, London. ... Pride and Prejudice is a 1995 British television drama serial, adapted from Jane Austens novel of the same name, originally published in 1813. ... The Final Cut is the third part of the House of Cards trilogy, a 1995 novel written by Michael Dobbs, perhaps better known as a 1996 BBC television serial based on the novel, adapted by Andrew Davies. ... The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe. ... William Makepeace Thackerays novel Vanity Fair (1847 - 1848) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. ... Wives and Daughters is a BBC miniseries adapted from the novel Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story by Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. ... Novel written in 1960 by Kingsley Amis. ... The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in London in 1875 by the prolific Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialization. ... Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama serial based on the bestselling debut novel by Sarah Waters of the same name. ... He Knew He Was Right is a 1869 novel written by Anthony Trollope which describes the failure of a marriage caused by the unreasonable jealousy of a husband exacerbated by the stubbornness of a willful wife. ... Bleak House is a fifteen-part BBC television drama serial adaptation of Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, which was originally published in 1852–53. ... The Line of Beauty is a contemporary masterpiece by Alan Hollinghurst. ... Northanger Abbey, a remake of the classic Jane Austen novel of the same name, premiered on 25th March, 2007 on the UK channel ITV at 9pm, as part of their Jane Austen Season. ... 1873 engraving of Jane Austen, based on a portrait drawn by her sister Cassandra. ... A Room with a View is televised adaptation of E. M. Forsters novel, A Room with a View, written by Andrew Davies. ... Fanny Hill is an upcoming BBC adaptation of John Clelands controversial novel, Fanny Hill, written by Andrew Davies[1] and directed by James Hawes. ... Little Dorrit is an upcoming television serial, written by Andrew Davies for BBC1[1]. The production follows the great success of Bleak House, also based on a novel by Charles Dickens, though Little Dorrit is to be even longer than Bleak House was[2]. ^ http://www. ... The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. ...

Television plays

• Who's Going to Take Me On? (1965)
• 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)
• Velvet Glove (1977)
• Fearless Frank (1978)
• Renoir My Father (1978)
• Bavarian Night (1981)
• Heartattack Hotel (1983)
• Baby I Love You (1985)
• Pythons on the Mountain (1985)
• Inappropriate Behaviour (1987)
• Lucky Sunil (1988)
• Filipina Dreamgirls (1991)
• A Very Polish Practice (1992)
• Anna Lee (1993)
• Harnessing Peacocks (1993)
• A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (1994)
• Emma (1996)
• Getting Hurt (1998)
• A Rather English Marriage (1998)
• Othello (2001)
• Boudica (2003)
• The Chatterley Affair (2006)

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. ... Othello and Desdemona by Alexandre-Marie Colin. ... The Chatterley Affair is a BBC television drama broadcast on BBC Four on March 20, 2006. ...

Cinema

• Circle of Friends
• The Tailor of Panama
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001, with Helen Fielding and Richard Curtis)
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004, with Helen Fielding)
• Brideshead Revisited (2008)

The 1990 novel Circle of Friends was written by Maeve Binchy. ... The Tailor of Panama (2001) is a spy film starring actors Pierce Brosnan and Geoffrey Rush and directed by John Boorman. ... Bridget Joness Diary is a 2001 film, based on the successful novel, also called Bridget Joness Diary, by Helen Fielding. ... Helen Fielding (born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British author, best known as the author of the novel Bridget Joness Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The Independent and... Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ... Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 film based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh of the same name. ...

Novels

• Getting Hurt 1989
• Dirty Faxes (short stories) 1990
• B.Monkey 1992

Based on the TV series of the same title:

• A Very Peculiar Practice (1986, Coronet)
• A Very Peculiar Practice: The New Frontier (1988, Methuen)

A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ...

Stage Plays

• Rose 1980
• Prin 1990

External links

• Andrew Davies at the Internet Movie Database