David Pirie, once a Time Out film critic and the author of several acclaimed books on the cinema has achieved a reputation as a screenwriter for his noirish original thrillers and period gothic pieces. His most recent publication is A Heritage of Horror.

Film

RAINY DAY WOMEN (BFI) Current
Screenplay based on his 1984 Play for Today

THE CORRUPTED
Dreamscape Productions

Selected Television

SIX ZERO Current
Pilot for 6 part series

MURDERLAND (IWC Media/ ITV )2009
3 x 60 written and created by David Pirie
Starring Robbie Coltrane, Bel Powley, Amanda Hale, Lucy Cohu
Directed by Catherine Morshead

THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (BBC Scotland) 2005
TV Film
Starring Tim McInnerny, Brian Cox, Sinead Cusack, Douglas Henshall, and Emily Blunt
Directed by Cilla Ware

POIROT: SAD CYPRESS (Granada) 2004
“The best Poirot I have seen,” Financial Times
Directed by David Moore

MURDER ROOMS (TPC/BBC) 2000-3
Original two part period prize-winning thriller which got the highest
audience of any drama on BBC2 in 2000 and became a successful BBC1
series and a critically acclaimed series of novels.
Starring Ian Richardson, Charles Dance, Sean Wightman and Robin Laing

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Carlton) 1997
Acclaimed and BAFTA nominated Hitchcockian adaptation of the
Wilkie Collins classic.
“Simply the best TV drama has to offer” (Observer)
Directed by Tim Fywell

BREAKING THE WAVES (Zentropa) 1996
Collaboration with Lars Von Trier
Starring Emily Watson and Stellan Skarsgard

BLACK EASTER 1995
Science-fiction film

NATURAL LIES 1992
Thriller series on BSE
Starring Bob Peck and Denis Lawson
Directed by Ben Bolt

ASHENDEN 1991
4 parter based on Somerset Maugham’s spy stories
Starring Alex Jennings, Joss Ackland, Ian Bannen and Jason Isaacs
Directed by Christopher Morahan

NEVER COME BACK (BBC) 1990
3 part thriller based on the novel by John Mair
Starring Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Coy and James Fox
Directed by Ben Bolt

RAINY DAY WOMEN (BBC) 1984
TV Movie
Starring Charles Dance, Cyril Cusack, Suzanne Bertish
Directed by Ben Bolt

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