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William Davies
Writer

William Davies

England, UK

William Davies (sometimes credited as William Davis or Will Davies) is an English screenwriter and producer. He has written and co-written several films, including Twins (1988), The Real McCoy (1993), the Johnny English franchise (2003-2018), Alien Autopsy (2006), Flushed... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

16 titles
Abominable

Abominable

Jill Culton 2019 1h 37m 5.5

A group of misfits encounter a young Yeti named Everest, and they set off to reunite the magical creature with his family on the mountain of his namesake.

Mia et le lion blanc

Mia et le lion blanc

Gilles de Maistre 2018 1h 38m 6.5

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

Johnny English Strikes Again

Johnny English Strikes Again

David Kerr 2018 1h 28m 5.5

Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker.

Puss in Boots

Puss in Boots

Chris Miller 2011 1h 30m 6.2

A story about the events leading up to the sword fighting cat's meeting with Shrek and his friends.

Johnny English Reborn

Johnny English Reborn

Oliver Parker 2011 1h 41m 5.4

Johnny English goes up against international assassins hunting down Chinese Premier Xiang Ping.

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon

Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois 2010 1h 38m 8.2

In the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, Hiccup is a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.

Flushed Away

Flushed Away

Sam Fell, David Bowers 2006 1h 25m 7.0

The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.

Alien Autopsy

Alien Autopsy

Jonny Campbell 2006 1h 35m 6.4

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.

Johnny English

Johnny English

Peter Howitt 2003 1h 27m 6.2

Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.

Ignition

Ignition

Yves Simoneau 2001 1h 39m 5.0

A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years

The Real McCoy

The Real McCoy

Russell Mulcahy 1993 1h 40m 2.5

A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men

Donald Petrie 1993 1h 43m 6.8

A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood, only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot

Roger Spottiswoode 1992 1h 27m 4.8

A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

True Identity

True Identity

Charles Lane 1991 1h 33m

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

Short Time

Short Time

Gregg Champion 1990 1h 37m

Nearing retirement, Dabney Coleman finds that he has a disease that will kill him within days. He then finds that his life insurance only pays off if he is killed in the line of duty. In order to leave something to his wife and children, Coleman becomes supercop, ignoring danger and trying his best to get killed.

Twins

Twins

Ivan Reitman 1988 1h 47m 6.0

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers.

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