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Tim Firth

Writer, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn October 13, 1964 (61 years)
Tim Firth is a screenwriter, playwright and song writer from North West England. He first came to fame with his Screen One drama Money For Nothing in 1993, and followed it up a year later with two BBC TV series; Once Upon a Time in the North and the award winning All Quiet on the Preston Front. Other TV works include the childrens series, The Rottentrolls, Border Cafe, Flint Street Nativity and Cruise of the Gods. His film credits include Calendar Girls, Blackball, Kinky Boots and The Wedding Video. His theatre credits include This is My Family, Neville's Island, The Safari Party, The Flint Street Nativity, and the musical Our House (West End, Olivier Award Best Musical). His play Calendar Girls broke all British records for a professional and amateur play, was nominated for an Olivier and won the Whatsonstage Best Comedy Award. Firth subsequently co-wrote the story as a musical alongside Take That's Gary Barlow, which opened at Leeds Opera house and transferred to the Phoenix Theatre in the West End, winning a Whatsonstage Award and an Olivier nomination. More recently, Firth has continued his writing partnership with Barlow to produce the hugely successful musical, The Band.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Boon
  • Strange Hill High

Known For

  • Calendar Girls
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic
  • Kinky Boots
  • Blackball
  • The Wedding Video
  • Greatest Days
  • Kinky Boots: The Musical
  • The Flint Street Nativity
  • Strange Hill High
  • Cruise of the Gods
  • Beauty
  • Minder
  • Neville's Island
  • King of Fridges

Tim Firth Filmography

2023
2019
Kinky Boots: The Musical · as Original Film Writer
2012
2012
Playhouse Presents (TV Series)
2009
2005
Kinky Boots · as Screenplay
2004
2003
Calendar Girls · as Screenplay
2003
2002
1999
1998
Neville's Island · as Screenplay
1994
1985
Screen One (TV Series)
1979
Minder (TV Series)

2014
Good Morning Britain (TV Series) · as Self - Nominated For Best New Musical 'the Girls'
2011
The Dales (TV Series) · as Self - Playwright, 'calendar Girls'
2007
Movie Connections (TV Series) · as Self
2004
'Calendar Girls': Creating the Calendar · as Self - Screenwriter
2002
Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self - Playwright
2000
BBC Breakfast (TV Series) · as Self

2004
King of Fridges · as Executive Producer
2004
Beauty · as Executive Producer
2002
Cruise of the Gods · as Associate Producer
1999
The Flint Street Nativity · as Associate Producer

2013
Strange Hill High (TV Series) · as Story Editor
1996
Roger and the Rottentrolls (TV Series) · as By
1986
Boon (TV Series) · as Written By
1984
The Bill (TV Series) · as By
1984
Spitting Image (TV Series) · as Additional Material

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