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Andrew Davies

Writing

Born September 20, 1936 · Rhiwbina, Wales, UK

Biography

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.

Awards & recognition

  • honorary doctorate · 2004
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature · 1996
  • Primetime Emmy Award

Filmography36 titles

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996Writer

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Writer

Consuming Passions

1988Screenplay

Pride and Prejudice

1995Writer

Bleak House

2005Writer

House of Cards

1990Creator, Screenstory, Writer

House of Cards

2013Executive Producer

Falling

2005Screenplay

Middlemarch

1994Writer

Little Dorrit

2008Screenplay

To Play the King

1993Writer

Daniel Deronda

2002Writer

Sanditon

2019Creator

War & Peace

2016Executive Producer, Writer

The Final Cut

1995Writer

Sense & Sensibility

2008Writer

Les Misérables

2018Executive Producer, Writer

Game-On

1995Creator, Writer

Mr Selfridge

2013Creator

The Signalman

1976Writer

Northanger Abbey

2007Writer

Tipping the Velvet

2002Screenplay

The Other Boleyn Girl

2008Script Consultant

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001Screenplay

The Line of Beauty

2006Adaptation

Emma

1996Screenplay

Brideshead Revisited

2008Screenplay

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2004Screenplay

Circle of Friends

1995Writer

A Suitable Boy

2020Writer

The Tailor of Panama

2001Screenplay

Quirke

Screenplay

The Three Musketeers

2011Screenplay

Affinity

2008Executive Producer, Writer

B. Monkey

1998Novel

A Room with a View

2007Screenplay