Peter James

Peter J. James is a British writer of crime fiction. He is also a producer, known for The Merchant of Venice (2004), Grace (2021) and The Neptune Factor (1973).

Works

The Shining

A new caretaker moves with his family into the mysterious Overlook Hotel for the winter.

Release Date1997-04-27

Charactersd Praying Ghost

Episode Count1

Vote Count352

Virtual Obsession

If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to download your consciousness into computer memory where you could still continue to interact with the ones you love?

Release Date1998-02-01

Charactersd Man at Computer

Vote Count7

Grace

Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.

Release Date2021-03-14

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Episode Count16

Vote Count86

The Merchant of Venice

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

Release Date2004-12-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count614

Head in the Clouds

Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated.

Release Date2004-04-29

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Executive Producer

Vote Count230

Deranged

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.

Release Date1974-02-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count116

Chiller

Chiller is a five-part British horror anthology television series, produced by Yorkshire Television, broadcast on ITV from 9 March to 27 April 1995. Described by The Guardian as ITV's 'answer to The X Files', the series is inspired by, but unconnected to, the 1991 Channel 4 thriller Gray Cray Dolls, which broadcast under the Chiller banner. The series featured writing contributions from renowned playwrights Stephen Gallagher, Glenn Chandler and Anthony Horowitz.

Release Date1995-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Guy X

A black comedy set in 1979, about a soldier mistakenly posted to an Arctic military base.

Release Date2005-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count26

Beowulf & Grendel

The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.

Release Date2005-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count254

The Alchemists

A Nobel-winning geneticist and his daughter begin working for a huge pharmaceutical company along with a slick American lawyer who appears to know more about the organisation's dodgy dealings than he lets on.

Release Date1999-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Bedsitcom

Bedsitcom is a British reality television hoax series that was broadcast on Channel 4 in December 2003. The series follows the lives of six young people living in a loft flat in London - three of them actors being directed by the writers.

Release Date2003-12-08

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

A Different Loyalty

In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.

Release Date2004-11-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count35

Sunday in the Country

Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unable to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.

Release Date1974-11-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count25

Under Milk Wood

The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.

Release Date1972-01-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count23

Dead of Night

A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.

Release Date1974-08-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count143

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Spanish Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Release Date2004-12-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count65

Side by Side

Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs

Release Date1975-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ceremony works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.

Release Date1972-06-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count105

Blue Blood

A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.

Release Date1974-11-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count13

Find the Lady

The daughter of a wealthy businessman has been kidnapped, and the chief of police, under a lot of pressure to find her as soon as possible, assigns Officers Kopek and Broom to track her down and bring her back safe and sound.

Release Date1976-11-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count15

Spanish Fly

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.

Release Date1976-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count13

Jericho Mansions

A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.

Release Date2003-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count29

The Corpse Grinders

When the Lotus Cat Food Company finds itself in financial trouble, the owners decide to find a new, cheap source of meat -- the local graveyard. Only one problem -- soon cats develop a taste for human flesh, and tabbies are tearing out throats all over town.

Release Date1971-05-19

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count36