Giles Cooper (Writer)

The Lady in the Van

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Release Date2015-10-30

Charactersd Passer-By

Vote Count769

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

Release Date1960-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count55

Vote Count11

Nowhere Boy

A rebellious teenager, future Beatle John Lennon lives with his Aunt Mimi in working-class mid-1950s Liverpool, England. Mimi's husband suddenly dies, and John spies his mother Julia at the funeral. Despite Mimi's misgivings, John intends to have a real relationship with his mother. Julia introduces him to popular music and the banjo and, though a family conflict looms, young John is inspired to form his own band.

Release Date2009-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobConsulting Producer

Vote Count828

Sword of Honour

Sword of Honour is a three-part miniseries produced as part of the anthology Theatre 625, and broadcast on BBC2, based on Evelyn Waugh's 1952–61 novels of the same name. It stars Edward Woodward as 35-year-old Englishman Guy Crouchback, who returns home from Italy at the start of WWII, determined to fight the good fight. Horrified by Nazi barbarism and emotionally shattered by a painful divorce, Crouchback eagerly accepts a post with the elite Royal Corps of Halberdiers.

Release Date1967-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

The Crawling Eye

A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.

Release Date1958-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count95

Lilli Palmer Theatre

A half-hour anthology series.

Release Date1955-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Madame Bovary

Francesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic tale of one woman's attempts to mold her own unfulfilling life in the shape of her favorite romantic novels.

Release Date1975-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

Unman, Wittering and Zigo

A new schoolteacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his students, and he fears the same fate will befall him.

Release Date1971-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

Vote Count17

Maigret

Release Date1964-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count18

Vote Count1

Tales of Mystery

Tales of Mystery was a British supernatural television drama anthology series based on the short stories of Algernon Blackwood. It was broadcast by ITV and ran over three seasons from 1961-1963. Produced by Peter Graham Scott, each episode was 25 minutes long and introduced by John Laurie. None of the 29 episodes broadcast survive in any television archive, however.

Release Date1961-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Drama '64/Studio '64: A Wicked World

Roland Green who thinks the world is all safe soon realises that the world he lives in can be a bit wicked sometimes.

Release Date1964-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Já jsem Osango

Release Date1969-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobTheatre Play

I Am Osango

Spot-welder Aaron Toft assumes the identity of Aaron Osango - an ex-spot welder who has been sentenced to death and is in jail in an African state.

Release Date1967-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter