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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
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
2024
Screenplay
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
2024
Screenplay
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
2022
Writer
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
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
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
2019
Writer
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
2017
Writer
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
2017
Writer
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
2016
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
2013
Screenplay
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
2012
Writer
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
2009
as Car Boot Dealer
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
2009
Writer
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
2008
Writer
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Trial.

Grow Your Own
2007
Writer
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
2005
Writer
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
2004
as Nativity Teacher
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
2004
Writer
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
2003
Screenplay
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Revengers Tragedy
2002
Screenplay
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
2002
Screenplay
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
2001
Writer
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
2000
Screenplay
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
1998
Screenplay, Writer
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
1997
Screenplay
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
1996
Writer
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
1996
Screenplay
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Butterfly Kiss
1995
Writer
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
1992
Writer
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
Two Scottish soldiers stationed in Germany head to Budapest to see a Simple Minds concert and fall for a local girl.