Nigel Williams was born on January 20, 1948 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England as Henry Nigel Williams. He is a writer and producer, known for Sea Wolf (2009), Moby Dick (2011) and Dirty Tricks (2000). He has been married to Suzan Harrison since June 2, 1972. They have three children.
Using a trove of archive photographs and film, Kureishi reflects on his father’s experiences as an immigrant in the post-war years, his own youth and entry into the world of theatre, the tumult around the publication of The Satanic Verses and its continued reverberations, and how he has transformed the life around him into a work of art.
Release Date2024-06-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self - Interviewer
Documentary portrait of the life of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in April 1967.
Release Date1982-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Narrator/Interviewer (voice)
Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to become a poet. Little did he know that he would eventually become world-renowned. The film unravels the myth by tracing the poet's biography backwards, from his much written about, much lied about death, to the heart of the Dylan Thomas story and his beginnings in a quiet street in suburban Swansea.
Release Date2003-11-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Narrator
The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this documentary about spies in fact and fiction, produced for British television.
Release Date2000-12-26
Charactersd Self / Presenter
Vote Count4
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Release Date1985-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count7
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Release Date2024-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1788
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Release Date1973-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.
Release Date2019-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count118
This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics.
Release Date2019-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count168
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Release Date2011-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count42
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Release Date1991-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count107
The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.
Release Date2005-09-29
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count85
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.
Release Date2016-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
A British comedy/drama. Directed by Christopher Morahan, this script focuses on the biting, humorous workplace banter between actors Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas Le Prevost
Release Date2007-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.
Release Date1992-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
Release Date1992-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist. While on the high seas he takes on a castaway, the literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden. But instead of dropping him off at the next harbour, Larsen forces him to work in his crew as a ship boy. The young dandy has to fight for his very own survival in this new, rough world on board. But his most dangerous challenge is the captain himself, who involves him in an evil game.
Release Date2009-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
John and Helen have moved into a house in Brixton, sourh London. John then gets to know a couple of his neighbours, his next door neighbour, who is black, and a white neighbour and his young leather-clad son.
Release Date1977-02-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
An extraordinary, spell-binding journey through the realms of nature to discover that the natural world is stranger, more magical, more mystical than anything you could possibly imagine. You'll be propelled from enchanted forests to the edge of the underworld, from a paranormal planet into fantastical seas, from celestial mountains through mercurial waters, finally to experience the ultimate celebration of nature's magic, the greatest gathering of wildlife on Earth. You won't believe your eyes or ears as you meet amazing creatures and experience nature as it's never been seen before, eye-to-eye with the creatures, on an adventure where you will truly believe the real world is more extraordinary and awe-inspiring than any fiction.
Release Date2014-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScenario Writer
Vote Count30
Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.
Release Date1994-12-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Bob believes he has won a fortune on the lottery but has misplaced his ticket. He tries to keep his supposed good fortune a secret from his family and friends.
Release Date1995-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop steward in the Distributive Worker's Union. Peace dies, but Charlie wants to know why his name was in Peace's address book. As Charlie investigates, things get murkier.
Release Date1984-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.
Release Date1988-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
Release Date2000-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton are two teenagers in their final year of secondary school at a comprehensive in Hackney in 1977. Energetic, anxious and occasionally naïve, the unlikely pair are on the brink of entering the adult world of the late '70s and early '80s when prospects are slim.
Release Date1983-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.
Release Date2013-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.
Release Date2002-06-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
A young man is reunited with his father, who has been presumed dead for ten years, and then tries to unravel the truth behind his disappearance.
Release Date1990-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama documentary biopic sees Patricia Routledge as Pym and follows the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love.
Release Date1992-02-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Ten-part series is set in 12th Century Europe. It begins when King Richard I is shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of Trieste. His disappearance kickstarts the story of an epic struggle across Europe for its most powerful crown.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Release Date1995-10-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
Release Date1990-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A look at Benedict Yerofeyev, the elusive author of the Russian underground classic From Moscow to Pietushki, who has existed on the fringes of Soviet society for most of his life.
Release Date1990-04-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count8
Dmitri Dostoevsky, Leningrad tram driver and great-grandson of Fyodor Dostoevsky, travels to western Europe following the footsteps of his great-grandfather's own journey in 1862. Dmitri hopes his efforts will help him realise his dream of owning a Mercedes.
Release Date1991-09-10
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count2
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
Release Date1994-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.
Release Date2005-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
In 1989, a woman was brutally murdered in broad daylight on a beach in Brittany. The detective assigned to the case was a young homicide cop, Jean Francois Abgrall. He became convinced that the murderer was a weird drifter called Francis Heaulmes who, despite an alibi, kept dropping mysterious hints. Abgrall recounts how he trailed Heaulmes through France to bring him to justice.
Release Date2008-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
BP's centenary celebration film. The film includes archive footage, dramatic reconstruction and interviews with BP employees.
Release Date2009-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccupied with their careers. Can their young neighbour Tessa help, or are the emotions around a new baby more complex than anyone had expected?
Release Date1981-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
