Stewart Harcourt
English screenwriter
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Stewart Harcourt (born 1968)[3] is an English screenwriter for film and television, whose work includes Jericho (2005), Murder on the Orient Express (2010), Maigret (2016)[4] and several Miss Marple teleplays.[5]
Stewart Harcourt | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Coventry, England |
| Education | University of Hull[1] University of Birmingham[2] |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
Early life and education
Harcourt is from Coventry. He attended the Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School.[1] He studied drama at the University of Hull and earned an MA in playwriting from the University of Birmingham. [2]
In 1985, while still at secondary school, he won the RSC Young Playwrights competition.[6] In 1988 he was awarded a prize as part of the National Student Drama Festival in Cambridge. In 1994 he was nominated as Best New Playwright at the London Fringe Awards.[7]
Career
His writing for film and television includes:
| Year | Production | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2000, 2001 | Hearts and Bones[8] | Creator, writer |
| 2005 | Jericho[9] | Creator, writer |
| Marple: A Murder is Announced | Writer | |
| 2006 | Marple: By the Pricking of my Thumbs | Writer |
| Dracula[10] | Writer | |
| 2007 | Marple: Ordeal by Innocence | Writer |
| 2009 | The Clocks[11] | Writer |
| 2010 | Marple: The Blue Geranium | Writer |
| Murder on the Orient Express[12] | Writer | |
| 2011 | George Gently[13] | Writer, Series 4, Episode 1 |
| 2012 | Treasure Island[14] | Writer |
| 2013 | Love and Marriage[15] | Creator, writer |
| 2014 | Agatha Raisin | Writer, Series 1 |
| Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death | Writer | |
| 2016 | Maigret[16] | Writer |
| Churchill's Secret[17] | Writer | |
| 2023 | Dalgliesh[18] | Writer, Series 2 A Certain Justice with Helen Edmundson |
| 2024 | A Gentleman in Moscow[19] | Writer |
| 2026 | The Physician II[20] | Writer |
Also
In the early 1990s, Harcourt was artistic director at the Man in the Moon Theatre, King's Road, London. In 1994 he became director of the Old Bull Arts Centre, Barnet.[7]
Harcourt has written the following plays:
In 2001 he published A practical guide for writers & companies Pub. Independent Theatre Council. In 2010, along with Jeff Dowson, Nic Jeune, Harcourt was part of a BAFTA-led mentoring project helping young people make film in Bristol.[23][24] Harcourt has been a guest speaker at Liverpool John Moores University screenwriting MA course.[25]
