Biography
After years as a leading TV drama writer, David Gilman launched the first of his teen action-novel series DANGERZONE (Puffin) in 2007.
Selected Credits:
TV: A TOUCH OF FROST, DALZIEL & PASCOE, SWEET SIXTEEN and DEATH IN THE FAMILY
Fiction: DEVIL'S BREATH
In Development:
2010
ORADOUR
Feature film script adapted from the book by Robert Mackness for Richard Bates.
Full Credits:
Produced:
2007/2008
A TOUCH OF FROST: DEAD END
2-hour episode for YTV/Excelsior
2005
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
2-hour episode of A TOUCH OFFROST for YTV / Excelsior
2003
A TOUCH OF FROST: ANOTHER LIFE
2-hour FROST Special for YTV / Excelsior: TX November 2003
BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama: Best Drama Series: National TV Awards
2003
A TOUCH OF FROST: HELD IN TRUST
2-hour episode for YTV / Excelsior: TX September 2003
2002
A TOUCH OF FROST: HIDDEN TRUTH
2-hour episode for YTV / Excelsior: TX January 2003: Ratings 11.6 million
2001
A TOUCH OF FROST: MISTAKEN IDENTITY
2 x 90-minute episode for YTV / Excelsior: Televised January 2002: Ratings: 12 million
2000
A TOUCH OF FROST: BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
2 x 90-minute episode for YTV / Excelsior: Televised January 2001: Ratings 14.69 million
2000
DALZIEL & PASCOE
90-minute film for the BBC: Co-written by Elizabeth Ann Wheal
1998
SWEET SIXTEEN
Frankfurt / Pro Sieben, Germany: Produced August 1998
1996
SON OF MAN
13 x 30-minute adaptation of the novel by Professor N Saule: Cap Waterfront / SABC
1995 / 96
HILL OF FOOLS: 13 x 30-minute adaptation of the novel by Professor N Saule: Cape Waterfront / SABC: highest rating drama in SABC broadcasting history
1994 / 95
THE SAFE HOUSE
13 x 60-minute: Heyns Films / SABC
1994
HAND OF A STRANGER
4 x 60-minute: Cape Waterfront / SABC
1994 / 95
HOMELAND
13 x 60-minute: Heyns Films / SABC / Primetime UK
1991 / 92
THE SYNDICATE
13 X 60- minute: Cape Waterfront / SABC: broadcast 1995
1991
BUTTERFLY DREAM
4 x 60-minute: The Film Company / SABC
1991
MMG ENGINEERS
4 x 60-minute: IFC Toron / SABC
ARTES nomination 1995
1990
DEATH IN THE FAMILY
4 x 60-minute: Cape Waterfront / SABC
ARTES Nomination 1994: EMMY Foreign Nomination 1994
1990
STOLEN LIVES
13 x 60-minute: Ivan Hall Productions / SABC
ARTES Nomination 1994
1988
IN HARM'S WAY
Commissioned adaptation of Geoffrey Jenkins' novel: Leisureco Films / August Entertainment, USA: with Jean Michael Vincent
Fiction:
The DANGER ZONE series, his first foray into fiction, has already seen him shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award and the Spellbinding Award, nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and picked for the government's recommended reading list for boys. Featuring plucky hero Max Gordon, each book has a different geographical setting. Now also writing the standalone novels THE MONKEY IN ME and THE DEAD CHICKEN DIARIES.
For more information see his author page here or his website www.davidgilman.com
THE DANGER ZONE TRILOGY:
THE DEVIL'S BREATH, ICE CLAW and BLOOD SUN
Puffin
Biog:
During the 1980's David Gilman was based in South Africa representing two of the best known British publishing houses, helping, among other things, to establish Sonny Mehta's new imprint Picador. During that time he also wrote hundreds of radio scripts. Before turning to writing full time he co-created Capricorn Publishers, a small publishing house specialising in non fiction, where he was publishing director. From the late eighties he wrote for SABC English television service, creating and writing a number of four part mini-series and thirteen part multi-stranded series which won a number of SASWA, IDEM, and ARTES awards.
In 1994, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, a four part mini series, was submitted for Best Foreign Emmy. Two screenplays were filmed for theatrical release as co-productions with USA. Returning to live full time in the UK in 1996 he wrote four screenplays for German television, one of which, SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN, took the highest film rating of the year for the broadcaster. Various adaptations and treatments for original TV series followed for UK producers. For the last six years he has been the principal writer on A TOUCH OF FROST, with last year's episode garnering the highest audience share for a ITV drama in recent years and a BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama.
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