Cast & creator
Andrew Davies
Best known for The South Bank Show, Play for Today, The Wednesday Play
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.
51
film credits
90
television credits
7
1964–2022 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (141)
Showing 141 of 141 credits
The South Bank Show
1978
Play for Today
Writer
1970
The Wednesday Play
Writer
1964
House of Cards
Executive Producer
2013
Screen Two
Writer
1985
Playhouse
Writer
1974
Omnibus
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Writer
1965
Mr Selfridge
Creator
2013
Screen One
Writer
1989
Centre Play
Writer
1973
BBC2 Play of the Week
Writer
1977
Pride and Prejudice
Writer
1995Pride and Prejudice
Creator
1995
Remembers…
Self
2022
Sense and Sensibility
Writer
2008Sense and Sensibility
Creator
2008
War and Peace
Writer
2016War and Peace
Executive Producer
2016
To Play the King
Writer
1993To Play the King
Author
1993To Play the King
Creator
1993
Bridget Jones's Diary
Screenplay
2001
Les Misérables
Writer
2018Les Misérables
Executive Producer
2018
Bleak House
Writer
2005Bleak House
Creator
2005
Sanditon
Creator
2019
The Tailor of Panama
Screenplay
2001
The Three Musketeers
Screenplay
2011
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Writer
1971
Vanity Fair
Writer
1998Vanity Fair
Creator
1998
The Other Boleyn Girl
Script Consultant
2008
Little Dorrit
Screenplay
2008Little Dorrit
Creator
2008
Daniel Deronda
Writer
2002Daniel Deronda
Creator
2002
House of Cards
Screenstory
1990House of Cards
Writer
1990House of Cards
Creator
1990
Game On
Writer
1995Game On
Creator
1995
Diana
Writer
1984Diana
Creator
1984
A Very Peculiar Practice
Writer
1986A Very Peculiar Practice
Creator
1986
Wives and Daughters
Writer
1999Wives and Daughters
Creator
1999
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Screenplay
2004
Middlemarch
Writer
1994
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Writer
1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Creator
1996
Tipping the Velvet
Screenplay
2002Tipping the Velvet
Creator
2002
To Serve Them All My Days
Writer
1980To Serve Them All My Days
Creator
1980
He Knew He Was Right
Writer
2004He Knew He Was Right
Creator
2004
The Legend of King Arthur
Writer
1979The Legend of King Arthur
Creator
1979
Doctor Zhivago
Writer
2002Doctor Zhivago
Creator
2002
The Line of Beauty
Adaptation
2006
The Final Cut
Writer
1995The Final Cut
Creator
1995
A Suitable Boy
Writer
2020A Suitable Boy
Creator
2020Sporting Scenes
Writer
1973
Brideshead Revisited
Screenplay
2008
Alfonso Bonzo
Writer
1990Alfonso Bonzo
Creator
1990
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
Writer
1992
Take a Girl Like You
Dramaturgy
2000Take a Girl Like You
Writer
2000Take a Girl Like You
Creator
2000
The Way We Live Now
Writer
2001
Quirke
Screenplay
2014Quirke
Creator
2014
Bedtime Stories
Writer
1974
Educating Marmalade
Creator
1982
South Riding
Writer
2011South Riding
Creator
2011
Emma
Screenplay
1996
Circle of Friends
Writer
1995Drama Trails
2010A Room with a View
Writer
2008A Room with a View
Creator
2008
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
Northanger Abbey
Writer
2007
Consuming Passions
Screenplay
1988
Billy Webb's Amazing Story
Characters
1991Billy Webb's Amazing Story
Creator
1991The Velvet Glove
Writer
1977Stages
Writer
1994
Fanny Hill
Screenplay
2007
B. Monkey
Novel
1999The Boot Street Band
Writer
1993
Othello
Writer
2001
Wilderness
Writer
1996
Fanny Hill
Teleplay
2007Fanny Hill
Writer
2007Fanny Hill
Creator
2007
Dark Towers
Creator
1981
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Writer
1996
A Room with a View
Screenplay
2007
A Poet in New York
Writer
2014
A Rather English Marriage
Teleplay
1998
Boudica
Writer
2003
Affinity
Writer
2008Affinity
Executive Producer
2008
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Director
2014Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Writer
2014
Pythons on the Mountain
Writer
1985Bavarian Night
Writer
1981Is That Your Body, Boy
Writer
1970
Pride and Prejudice: From Page to Screen
Self
1995
A Very Polish Practice
Writer
1992
The Chatterley Affair
Writer
2006
A Martyr to the System
Writer
1976
Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics
Himself
2018
Time After Time
Writer
1986
Bill's New Frock
Writer
1998
Sleep with Me
Screenplay
2009
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart
Writer
1994Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage
Writer
1989The Imp of the Perverse
Adaptation
1975Anna Lee: Headcase
Writer
1993
Grace
Writer
1975
The Diary of a Nobody
Writer
2007
Renoir, My Father
Writer
1978
Harnessing Peacocks
Writer
1993Getting Hurt
Writer
1998
The Old Devils
Writer
1992
The Signalman
Writer
1976
Filipina Dreamgirls
Writer
1991
Inappropriate Behaviour
Writer
1987
Lucky Sunil
Writer
1988
A Private Life
Writer
1989
Fearless Frank
Writer
1978
Falling
Screenplay
2005