- David Ambrose
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David Ambrose is a British novelist and screenwriter whose credits include at least 20 Hollywood films, 3 stage plays, and countless hours of television, including the controversial Alternative 3. He was born in Chorley, England and attended Blackburn Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford. He is married to artist Laurence Ambrose and lives in Switzerland.
His screenplay for The Survivor (directed by David Hemmings) won the Best Script award at the International Film Festival of Catalonia.
Contents
Novels
- The Man Who Turned Into Himself, Jonathan Cape, 1993 (UK); reissued by MacMillan (Picador) in 2008
- Mother of God, Macmillan, 1995 (UK); Simon & Schuster, 1996 (US)
- Superstition, Macmillan, 1997 (UK); Warner Books, 1998 (US)
- The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk, Macmillan, 2000 (UK)
- Coincidence, Macmillan, 2001 (UK); Warner Books, 2002 (US)
- A Memory of Demons, Macmillan, 2003 (UK); Pocket Books, 2004 (US)
Short stories
Films
- Year of the Gun (1991) - screenplay
- The French Revolution (1989) - screenplay
- Taffin (1988) - screenplay
- D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) - screenplay
- Blackout (1984) - screenplay
- Amityville III (1981) - screenplay (as William Wales)
- The Final Countdown (1980) - story, screenplay
- The Survivor (1980) - screenplay
- A Dangerous Summer (1980) - screenplay
- A Man Called Intrepid (1979) - screenplay
- The Fifth Musketeer (1974) - screenplay
TV Specials
- Alternative 3 (1977) - original screenplay
TV Feature-Length Films
- Remembrance (1996) - screenplay
- Fall From Grace (1994) - screenplay
- Comeback (1987) - screenplay/director
- Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) - screenplay
TV series
- Justice - chief writer, two series
- Hadleigh - chief writer, two series
- Colditz - episodes
- Public Eye - episodes
- Oil Strike North - episodes
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries - episodes
TV Drama (UK)
- Nanny's Boy (1976) - writer
- A Variety of Passion (1975) - writer
- Goose with Pepper (1975) - writer
- Love Me to Death (1974) - writer
- Reckoning Day (1973) - writer
- When the Music Stops (1972) - writer
- The Professional (1972) - writer
- The Undoing (1970) - writer
- The Innocent Ceremony (1970) - writer
- Public Face (1969) - writer
Stage Plays
- Siege (1972) Cambridge Theatre, London, with Alastair Sim, Stanley Holloway and Michael Bryant
- Abra-Cadaver (1990), UK, with Frank Langella
- Restoration Comedy (1991), Oxford
External links
Categories:- English screenwriters
- English novelists
- Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
- Living people
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