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Andrew Davies
Writer 89 years old

Andrew Davies

Rhiwbina, Wales, UK

Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Bleak House and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

13 titles
The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

Paul W. S. Anderson 2011 1h 50m 6.5

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited

Julian Jarrold 2008 2h 13m 5.5

Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jon Jones 2007 1h 33m 6.0

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Beeban Kidron 2004 1h 48m 6.3

The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, strange contractor, and the worst vacation of her life.

Boudica

Boudica

Bill Anderson 2003 1h 23m 5.0

Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

John Boorman 2001 1h 49m 6.0

A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

Sharon Maguire 2001 1h 37m 6.9

Bridget Jone’s Diary is a romantic love story comedy from the best selling novel of the same name by Helen Fielding. A chaotic Jones meets a snobbish lawer named Marc and soon he enters into her world of imperfections.

The Final Cut

The Final Cut

1995 51m

Seasoned politician Francis Urquhart tries to establish his legacy before retirement by negotiating an end to the Cyprus, but the island hides secrets from his past that could destroy him.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

1995 55m 8.5

Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.

Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends

Pat O'Connor 1995 1h 43m 5.0

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?

To Play the King

To Play the King

1993 55m

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

House of Cards

House of Cards

1990 55m

Charming chief whip Frances Urquhart plots revenge against his colleagues.

The Signalman

The Signalman

Lawrence Gordon Clark 1976 38m

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.

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