Biography
Novelist, Scriptwriter and Producer
After graduating from Cambridge with a degree in English, Simon Passmore studied at Boston University on a graduate fellowship and worked part-time as a copy-editor at Little, Brown. He returned to England with an MA and wrote a variety of journalism, from fine art reviews to features, for publications including THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE LISTENER, TIME OUT and THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Copywriting for a small advertising agency was followed by a stint as researcher and director on Channel Four magazine YEARS AHEAD.
From here Simon went to the BBC as a script editor, and then producer, in the Drama Series & Serials department. He worked closely with writers including Andrea Newman (four of whose television dramas he was later to produce), John Harvey, Jimmy McGovern, Peter Prince, Nigel Williams, Sarah Dunant, Debbie Horsfield, Adam Mars-Jones and Lynda La Plante. As well as developing original screenplays, he script edited adaptations of works by a number of novelists, both period (Benjamin Disraeli, Arnold Bennett, Vita Sackville-West) and contemporary (Martin Amis, John Le Carré, R.F. Delderfield, John Fowles, Margaret Atwood).
Full Credits:
Producer:
A SENSE OF GUILT
The hugely successful Andrea Newman serial: written simultaneously as a novel: BBC
WHOSE BABY?
Written by Rosemary Kay
ITV
FOYLE'S WAR
Written by Anthony Horowitz: First two series of ITV's commercial and critical
hit series
FORGIVE AND FORGET
By Mark Burt: starring John Simm and Laura Fraser: Screened at the London and San Francisco film festivals
Developer, Editor and Producer:
TRAITORS
By Jimmy McGovern: BBC
DO NOT DISTURB
By Timberlake Wertenbaker: BBC
THE LAW LORD
By John Cooper: BBC
SECONDS OUT
By Lynda La Plante: BBC
PRETENDING TO BE JUDITH
An original Andrea Newman drama: ITV
IMOGEN'S FACE
An original three-part ITV serial: developed with Andrea Newman: which topped the drama charts
OUT OF HOURS
Medical series: BBC
SEVENTEEN,
Sandra Goldbacher's short feature: starring Rachel Weisz
Editor and Producer:
AN EVIL STREAK
Adapted by Andrea Newman from her own novel: ITV
Co-devised and Co-wrote:
BUST
A drama series for LWT
Writing Credits:
In Development:
Currently Simon is working on a new novel and an original film script.
Completed:
DEEP WATER
Novel
SLEEPING DOGS
Film screenplay
IN A SUMMER SEASON
Film adaptation of Elizabeth Taylor's novel
SLIDERS
Radio play
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