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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