William Boyd

Rights, Writer

Agent

Stephen Durbridge
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William Boyd is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter.

Television – Current

FALL OF GIANTS (Carnival)

Adaptation of Ken Follett novel

MAXIMILIAN AND CARLOTTA (High End Productions)

2 x 90’

PARIS INTERZONE (Leonis/Blue Bear)

Pilot episode

HARRY’S GAME (Ecosse Films)

Original series

ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS (Ecosse Films)

Adaptation of his own novel

WAITING FOR SUNRISE (Broadway Video Entertainment Inc/Red Planet)

Adaptation of his own novel

 

Television

SPY CITY (Odeon Film / Miramax)

6 part original series for ZDF starring Dominic Cooper

RESTLESS (Endor/BBC) 2012

Mini-series starring Hayley Atwell, Rufus Sewell, Michelle Dockerty, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling

ANY HUMAN HEART (Carnival/Channel 4) 2010

4×90′

Starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew MacFadyen

A WASTE OF SHAME (BBC) 2005

SWORD OF HONOUR (BOX TV/Channel 4) 2001

ARMADILLO (BBC/A&E) 2001

4 parts series based on the novel

SCOOP (LWT) 1988

DUTCH GIRLS (LWT) 1985

GOOD AND BAD AT GAMES (Channel 4) 1981

 

Film – Current

THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR (Cambridge Picture Company)

Based on the John Treherne book

THE SALZBURG DIARIES (M.Y.R.A Entertainment)

CORK (Crescent Avenue Pictures)

Based on his short story

THE CAPTAIN AND THE ENEMY (Victor Glynn)

Based on the novel by Graham Greene

 

Film

THE TRENCH (Skyline Films/Blue PM) 1999

Writer and Director. Starring Daniel Craig

MAN TO MAN (Vertigo) 2005

A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA (Southern Sun) 1993

Directed by Bruce Beresford

CHAPLIN (Carolco) 1992

Co-Screenwriter. Director Richard Attenborough

MISTER JOHNSON (Avenue Pictures Productions) 1990

AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER (Cinecom) 1990

Based on Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel

STARS AND BARS (Columbia Pictures) 1988

Starring Daniel Day Lewis

 

Theatre

THE ARGUMENT (Hampstead Theatre) 2016

LONGING (Hampstead Theatre) 2011

 

Novels

THE ROMANTIC 2022

TRIO 2020

LOVE IS BLIND 2017

SWEET CARESS 2015

SOLO (James Bond novel) (Jonathan Cape) 2013

WAITING FOR SUNRISE (Bloomsbury) 2012

ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS (Bloomsbury) 2009

RESTLESS (Bloomsbury) 2006

ANY HUMAN HEART 2002

ARMADILLO 1998

THE BLUE AFTERNOON 1993

BRAZZAVILLE BEACH 1990

THE NEW CONFESSIONS 1987

STARS AND BARS 1984

AN ICE CREAM WAR 1982

A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA 1981

 

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