Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce

1959-09-23 Liverpool 31 Credits

Biography

​​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Cottrell Boyce, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

2024

Acting

Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many s...

The Beautiful Game

The Beautiful Game

2024

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Hom...

Kensuke's Kingdom

Kensuke's Kingdom

2024

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

A young boy and his family set off on a sailing trip of a lifetime until a violent storm erupts, sweeping Michael and his dog overboard. After washing...

Paddington Meets The Queen

Paddington Meets The Queen

2022

Writer

Writing

Paddington learns that The Queen also loves marmalade sandwiches. He shows Her Majesty where he hides his sandwiches, and The Queen also shows where s...

The Gruffalo and Me: The Remarkable Julia Donaldson

2020

as interviewed guest

10.0
Acting

The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies, and the remarkable cast of characters that have ...

The Magical World of Julia Donaldson

2020

as Self

6.0
Acting

This was of course a fitting look into the world of Julia Donaldson, whose books have kept the BBC in Christmas animations for the last few years, and...

Sometimes Always Never

Sometimes Always Never

2019

Writer

6.3
Writing

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a ...

Goodbye Christopher Robin

Goodbye Christopher Robin

2017

Writer

7.0
Writing

The behind the scenes story of the life of A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son Christopher Robin.

Earth: One Amazing Day

Earth: One Amazing Day

2017

Writer

7.8
Writing

An astonishing journey revealing the awesome power of the natural world. Over the course of one single day, we track the sun from the highest mountain...

One Night In 2012

One Night In 2012

2016

Acting

Co-produced by Rogan Productions and BBC Studios. London. The Summer of 2012. As rehearsals take place in a rainy Dagenham car park, Director Danny B...

The Railway Man

The Railway Man

2013

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder

2012

Writer

7.7
Writing

The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes ...

Framed

Framed

2009

as Car Boot Dealer

4.1
Acting

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of price...

Framed

Framed

2009

Writer

4.1
Writing

The National Gallery in London has flooded, and senior curator Quentin Lester has a dramatic solution. He proposes that the entire collection of price...

God on Trial

God on Trial

2008

Writer

6.8
Writing

In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

Grow Your Own

Grow Your Own

2007

Writer

6.6
Writing

A refugee family are given an allotment plot and are met with suspicion by the people who have worked the gardens for years

A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

Writer

6.2
Writing

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

Millions

Millions

2004

as Nativity Teacher

6.4
Acting

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the Uni...

Millions

Millions

2004

Writer

6.4
Writing

Two boys, still grieving the death of their mother, find themselves the unwitting benefactors of a bag of bank robbery loot in the week before the Uni...

Code 46

Code 46

2003

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Revengers Tragedy

Revengers Tragedy

2002

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the reveng...

24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People

2002

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changi...

Pandaemonium

Pandaemonium

2001

Writer

5.0
Writing

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...

The Claim

The Claim

2000

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

Hilary and Jackie

Hilary and Jackie

1998

Screenplay, Writer

6.6
Writing

The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Welcome to Sarajevo

Welcome to Sarajevo

1997

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks wh...

New York Crossing

New York Crossing

1996

Writer

1.0
Writing

A family reunion is disrupted by possibly the real Santa Claus collapsing in Penn Station - minor miracles ensue across the city of New York.

Saint-Ex

Saint-Ex

1996

Screenplay

3.0
Writing

Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Butterfly Kiss

Butterfly Kiss

1995

Writer

6.5
Writing

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly se...

All Good Friends: The Case of the Handless Corpse

All Good Friends: The Case of the Handless Corpse

1992

Writer

Writing

A dramatization of the murder of drug world figure Martin Johnstone, a crime spanning three continents and resulting in the conviction of five men.

Forget About Me

1990

Screenplay

Writing

Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.