Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 23 September 1959[1]) wrote the Doctor Who television stories In the Forest of the Night and Smile.
He was interviewed on the documentary Smile.
Career[]
Outside of Doctor Who, Cottrell-Boyce is a children's novelist, as well as a screenwriter. He wrote the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games, which he based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. Cottrell-Boyce has won two major awards for children's books, and various other awards for scripts and screenplays he's written.
He wrote the 1996 television film Saint-Ex, which featured Eleanor Bron and Alex Kingston.
He co-created the animated series Captian Star, which starred Richard E Grant.
He wrote the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie, which featured David Morrissey and Celia Imrie.
He wrote 2000 film The Claim, which featured Shirley Henderson.
He wrote the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which featured Shirley Henderson, John Simm, Ralf Little, Ron Cook, Peter Kay, Simon Pegg and Christopher Eccleston.
He wrote the 2002 film Revengers Tragedy, which starred Christopher Eccleston, Marc Warren and Derek Jacobi.
His 2004 novel Millions, and the concurrent film of the same name, also written by Cottrell-Boyce, won him the 2004 Carnegie Medal (for the book), and the British Independent Film Award for best screenplay (for the film). His next novel, Framed, in 2005, was shortlisted for many awards and prizes. In 2011, Cottrell-Boyce was commissioned to write sequels to Ian Fleming's literary classic Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, beginning with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again.
He wrote the 2005 film A Cock and Bull Story, which featured Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, David Walliams and Stephen Fry.
He wrote the 2007 film Grow Your Own, which featured Olivia Colman.
He wrote the 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin, which featured Shaun Dingwall and Simon Williams.
He wrote the 2018 film Sometimes Always Never, which starred Bill Nighy, Jenny Agutter, Tim McInnerny and Alexei Sayle.
He co-created the 2021 miniseries Stephen, which featured Hugh Quarshie and was scored by Segun Akinola.
In 2024, he was announced as the new Children's Laureate.[2]
In 2024, he wrote the film The Beautiful Game, which starred Bill Nighy.
External links[]
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce at the Internet Movie Database
- Official Twitter account
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce at British Council Literature
- Frank Cottrell-Boyce at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Author's blog (2007)
