Ronan Bennett (Writing)
Little is known about Ronan Bennett, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
The Day of the Jackal
An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.
Release Date:2024-11-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:493
Dead Shot
In the 1970s, a member of the IRA takes over an Active Service Unit in London after his wife is accidentally shot dead in Ireland. The unit's mission is to cause chaos and destruction, while his personal aim is to hunt down his wife’s killer — an SAS captain, who is also hunting him.
Release Date:2023-08-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:56
Top Boy
Two seasoned drug dealers return to the gritty street of London, but their pursuit of money and power is threatened by a young and ruthless hustler.
Release Date:2019-09-13
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:113
Gunpowder
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Release Date:2017-10-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:190
Antonia Bird: From EastEnders to Hollywood
In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from the radical hotbed of the Royal Court Theatre in the 70s, via the groundbreaking early days of EastEnders and Casualty in the 80s, all the way to Hollywood in the 90s and back again. She always had something urgent to say, but her career was a long struggle to get her voice heard. Featuring many of her close collaborators, including Robert Carlyle, Irvine Welsh, Kate Hardie and Mark Cousins, this documentary is the first to examine Bird’s legacy, and to place her where she belongs – among the most important British film, TV and theatre directors of her era.
Release Date:2016-05-12
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Top Boy
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Release Date:2011-10-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:113
Hidden
Hidden is a 2011 British television drama starring Philip Glenister, Thekla Reuten, Anna Chancellor, Michael Winder, Andrew Scarborough and David Suchet which debuted on BBC One on 6 October 2011. The four part series was directed by Niall MacCormick, produced by Christopher Hall and written by Ronan Bennett.
Release Date:2011-10-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:16
Public Enemies
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Release Date:2009-07-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4501
10 Days to War
A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
Release Date:2008-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:4
The Hamburg Cell
A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.
Release Date:2004-08-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, who lost his life in a recent robbery attempt,on a woman whom he's been seeing and for whom he has strong feelings and whether or not he should go ahead with the present crime.
Release Date:2002-12-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Fields of Gold
A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
Release Date:2002-06-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Lucky Break
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
Release Date:2001-08-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:34
Rebel Heart
The move towards independence in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising until the 1922 civil war is seen through the eyes of a naive idealistic young man
Release Date:2001-01-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Face
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
Release Date:1997-09-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:70
A Further Gesture
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Release Date:1997-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish mechanic. Despite the gulf between them they start an affair.
Release Date:1994-11-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Love Lies Bleeding
Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrounding her death, and he begins to realize that his lover was not what she seemed.
Release Date:1993-06-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Untitled Guy Ritchie Series
Follow two warring families based in London whose enterprises stretch all corners of the globe and the fiercely loyal "fixer" charged with protecting one of them at all costs.
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:1