J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie

1860-05-09 Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, UK 65 Credits

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in Th...

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Hook

Hook

2025

Characters

3.0

Driven by a hallucinogenic drug and a thirst for revenge, James Hook murders John Darling and loses his hand to Peter Pan. Eighteen years later, Wendy...

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter

2025

Author

A young woman follows a mysterious melody onto a remote tidal island. When she crosses back over at the next low tide, she emerges into a world where ...

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare

2025

Novel, Characters

5.7

Wendy Darling strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from the clutches of the evil Peter Pan who intends to send him to Neverland. Al...

Peter: The price of youth

Peter: The price of youth

2024

Characters, Novel

Peter Pan, the eternal child, is obsessed with maintaining his youth. This obsession leads him down a dark and dangerous path, moving further and furt...

Peter Pan & Wendy

Peter Pan & Wendy

2023

Novel

5.4

Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tin...

Come Away

Come Away

2020

Characters

5.8

Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they ...

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

National Theatre Live: Peter Pan

2017

Writer

Writing

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Ti...

Peter & Wendy

Peter & Wendy

2015

Novel

6.8

Lucy is a young girl admitted to Great Ormond Street with a heart condition. Whilst there she makes a connection with JM Barrie's classic story of Pet...

Pan

Pan

2015

Characters

6.0

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits a...

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast

Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast

2014

Characters

7.4

An ancient myth of a massive creature sparks the curiosity of Tinker Bell and her good friend Fawn, an animal fairy who’s not afraid to break the rule...

Peter Pan Live!

Peter Pan Live!

2014

Theatre Play, Novel

5.2

Following in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful The Sound of Music LIVE! - which drew over 18 million viewers - comes this musical masterpie...

Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy

Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy

2014

Characters

6.9

Zarina, a smart and ambitious dust-keeper fairy who’s captivated by Blue Pixie Dust and its endless possibilities, flees Pixie Hollow and joins forces...

Secret of the Wings

Secret of the Wings

2012

Characters

7.2

Tinkerbell wanders into the forbidden Winter woods and meets Periwinkle. Together they learn the secret of their wings and try to unite the warm fairi...

Pixie Hollow Games

Pixie Hollow Games

2011

Characters

7.0

Rosetta and new arrival Chloe band together to try to break the garden fairies' legendary losing streak in the Pixie Hollow Games, a sports spectacle ...

Tinker Bell

Tinker Bell

2008

Characters

6.9

Journey into the secret world of Pixie Hollow and hear Tinker Bell speak for the very first time as the astonishing story of Disney's most famous fair...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

2003

Theatre Play, Novel

7.2

In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captai...

Return to Never Land

Return to Never Land

2002

Characters

6.5

In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Pete...

Shrek

Shrek

2001

Characters

7.8

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the cl...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

2000

Novel, Theatre Play

6.5

The stage musical Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby has toured the world to great acclaim. An adaptation of the famous 1954 musical directed by Jerome Ro...

Hook

Hook

1991

Characters

6.8

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and ki...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1988

Novel

6.3

This animated fairy tale for kids tells the classic story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. Determined never to become an adult, Peter stays fo...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1987

Novel

5.6

The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook ...

Mary Rose

Mary Rose

1987

Writer

Writing

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and...

Dear Brutus

1981

Writer

Writing

"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative re...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1976

Theatre Play

6.0

Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark H...

The Little Minister

1975

Novel

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy g...

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

1968

Theatre Play

6.0

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks...

Johannisnacht

1966

Novel

6.0
Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1962

Original Story

Writing

Peter Pan is an adolescent boy who has escaped from his parents to the dreamland of Nowhere. Peter is determined to remain a little boy forever; becau...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1960

Theatre Play, Novel

6.7

In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidekick Tinkerbell visit the nursery of Wendy, Michael...

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

1957

Theatre Play

6.9

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1956

Theatre Play

1.0

This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same cast, it nevertheless is its own unique performance...

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1955

Theatre Play, Novel

6.1

This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7, 1955. It was so popular that it was restaged the...

Forever Female

Forever Female

1953

Theatre Play

6.7

An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1953

Theatre Play

7.2

Leaving the safety of their nursery behind, Wendy, Michael and John follow Peter Pan to a magical world where childhood lasts forever. But while in Ne...

Darling, How Could You!

Darling, How Could You!

1951

Theatre Play

6.0

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

Quality Street

Quality Street

1937

Novel

5.9

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

As You Like It

As You Like It

1936

treatment

5.1

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

1934

Novel, Theatre Play

5.9

The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one o...

What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows

1934

Theatre Play

7.0

Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must ma...

We're Not Dressing

We're Not Dressing

1934

Theatre Play

6.6

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to a...

Charlemagne

1933

Story

Writing

After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning t...

The Doctor's Secret

1930

Theatre Play

Marriage to a despotic man is unbearable for Liliana Garson. After a violent argument with Garson, she leaves jewelry, a wedding ring, and a letter an...

The Doctor's Secret

The Doctor's Secret

1930

Writer

Writing

Lady Lillian Gardner is unhappily married to rich businessman Richard Gardner. On a banquet she meets Hugo Paton whom she falls in love with.

The doctor's secret

1930

Writer

Writing

Lillian Garson, a woman of noble English ancestry who is married to a commoner, has written a letter to her husband, ending their marriage.

Le secret du docteur

Le secret du docteur

1930

Original Story

Writing

A young woman is married to a cad. She writes him a break-up letter and decides to run away with her lover to Egypt. But her lover is run over by a ca...

Seven Days Leave

Seven Days Leave

1930

Theatre Play

7.0

In London, during WWI, a lonely woman who wants to feel a part of the war effort pretends to her friends to have a son fighting in the war. She is sho...

The Doctor's Secret

The Doctor's Secret

1929

Writer

Writing

Young Englishwoman Lillian Garson is unhappy with her marriage and decides to elope with another man. However he is killed in a car accident and she r...

A Kiss for Cinderella

A Kiss for Cinderella

1925

Theatre Play

5.0

An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie.

Peter Pan

Peter Pan

1924

Novel

6.9

Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefario...

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

1922

Theatre Play

A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

1921

Theatre Play

7.0

In 1840 Scotland, a young lass named Babbie revels in the country life and frolics with the locals, simple weavers whose livelihood is threatened by i...

What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows

1921

Theatre Play

Alick Wylie agrees to give railroad porter John Shand $300 to help him secure his education and political ambitions on condition that his daughter Mag...

Sentimental Tommy

Sentimental Tommy

1921

Story

4.0
Writing

Grizel is the daughter of the Painted Lady, who believes that her lover will one day return. Grizel is ostracized by the other children of the town. T...

The Will

1921

Screenplay

Writing

The Twelve Pound Look

1920

Story

Writing

A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.

Male and Female

Male and Female

1919

Theatre Play

6.3

When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.

What Every Woman Knows

1917

Screenplay

Writing

Masks and Faces

1917

4.5
Acting

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

The Real Thing at Last

1916

Story

Writing

Shakespeare parody

Rosy Rapture

1915

Writer

Writing

A showgirl's baby has an adventure with brigands.

The Little Minister

1915

Theatre Play, Screenplay

Writing

A Lord's fiancée poses as a gypsy and falls in love with the new minister.

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

1913

Novel

To start a little in advance of our story, Lord Rintoul, of the English nobility, finds a little Gypsy girl three years old, who had been deserted by ...

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble

N/A

Characters

When Peter Pan and Tinker Bell assemble an evil team with Mary Poppins, Winnie and his friends assemble a team to face them. Including Bambi, Piglet, ...

Untitled Tinkerbell Movie

N/A

Characters

Solo Tinkerbell spin-off confirmed to be apart of Phase 2 of the TCU. Plot TBA