Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, Bleak House and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.
Biography from TMDB.
- September 20, 1936 (90)
- Rhiwbina, Wales, UK
- Writer, also producer
- 39 on MovieCove · 100 credits in all
Known for
What are Andrew Davies' films like?
Across their 35 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 2 · Wry 2 · Earnest 14
A split, not a type: Light 7 · Serious 5 · Dark 6
Grounded 6 · Stylized 11 · Heightened 1
Gentle 4 · Charged 10 · Intense 4
A split, not a type: Steady 10 · Shifting 8 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 8 · Some laughs 7 · Funny 3
Slow burn 7 · Even-paced 9 · Relentless 2
Casual 10 · Engaged 7 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 7 · Heavy 6
Resolved 15 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy8
- Bittersweet20
- Tragic2
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Andrew Davies' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 28 of their 39 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Prime Video (17).
- To Play the King (1993) · writer
- Bleak House (2005) · writer
- Little Dorrit (2008) · writer
- War & Peace (2016) · writer, producer
- Sense & Sensibility (2008) · writer
- Game-On (1995) · writer
- Northanger Abbey (2007) · writer
- Falling (2005) · writer
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) · writer
- Sanditon (2019) · writer, producer
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) · writer
- Mr Selfridge (2013) · creator · free
- +5 more
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) · writer · free
- Bleak House (2005) · writer · free
- Little Dorrit (2008) · writer · free
- Sense & Sensibility (2008) · writer · free
- Game-On (1995) · writer · free
- Falling (2005) · writer · free
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) · writer · free
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) · writer · free
- Emma (1996) · writer · free
- Middlemarch (1994) · writer · free
- The Line of Beauty (2006) · writer · free
- Daniel Deronda (2002) · writer · free
- +4 more
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- Pride and Prejudice (1995) · writer
- To Play the King (1993) · writer
- Bleak House (2005) · writer
- Little Dorrit (2008) · writer
- War & Peace (2016) · writer, producer
- Sense & Sensibility (2008) · writer
- Northanger Abbey (2007) · writer
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) · writer
- Middlemarch (1994) · writer
- Daniel Deronda (2002) · writer
- Doctor Zhivago (2002) · writer
- Quirke (2013) · writer
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) · writer · free
- Bleak House (2005) · writer · free
- Little Dorrit (2008) · writer · free
- War & Peace (2016) · writer, producer · free
- Sense & Sensibility (2008) · writer · free
- Game-On (1995) · writer · free
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) · writer · free
- Tipping the Velvet (2002) · writer · free
- Emma (1996) · writer · free
- Middlemarch (1994) · writer · free
- Daniel Deronda (2002) · writer · free
- Doctor Zhivago (2002) · writer · free
- Pride and Prejudice (1995) · writer
- To Play the King (1993) · writer
- Bleak House (2005) · writer
- Little Dorrit (2008) · writer
- War & Peace (2016) · writer, producer
- Sense & Sensibility (2008) · writer
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) · writer
- Middlemarch (1994) · writer
- Daniel Deronda (2002) · writer
Subscription and free streaming for Andrew Davies' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
100 credits, 39 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
A Suitable Boy(2020)
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all shows
Sanditon(2019)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all shows
Les Misérables(2018)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
War & Peace(2016)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
A Poet in New York(2014)
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Quirke(2013)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all shows
House of Cards(2013)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Mr Selfridge(2013)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
The Three Musketeers(2011)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
South Riding(2011)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all showsDrama Trails (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Sleep with Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Affinity(2008)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
Little Dorrit(2008)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all shows
Brideshead Revisited(2008)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all filmsA Room with a View (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl(2008)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Sense & Sensibility(2008)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
A Room with a View(2007)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Northanger Abbey(2007)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Fanny Hill (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Fanny Hill (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Diary of a Nobody (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
The Line of Beauty(2006)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all shows
The Chatterley Affair(2006)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all films
Bleak House(2005)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
Falling(2005)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
He Knew He Was Right (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Warrior Queen(2003)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all films
Tipping the Velvet(2002)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Doctor Zhivago(2002)
Midcredits score: 59th percentile of all shows
Daniel Deronda(2002)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Othello(2001)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
The Way We Live Now (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
Bridget Jones's Diary(2001)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
The Tailor of Panama(2001)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Take a Girl Like You (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Wives and Daughters (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1999)
B. Monkey(1998)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Vanity Fair (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Bill's New Frock (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Getting Hurt (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Emma(1996)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Wilderness (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
The Final Cut (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Pride and Prejudice(1995)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Circle of Friends(1995)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Game-On(1995)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
A Few Short Journeys of the Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Stages (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)
Middlemarch(1994)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Harnessing Peacocks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
To Play the King(1993)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all showsAnna Lee: Headcase (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
A Very Polish Practice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
The Old Devils (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Filipina Dreamgirls (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Billy Webb's Amazing Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
House of Cards (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
Alfonso Bonzo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
A Private Life (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Screen One (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Lucky Sunil (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Consuming Passions(1988)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Inappropriate Behaviour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
A Very Peculiar Practice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Time After Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Pythons on the Mountain (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Screen Two (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Diana (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Educating Marmalade (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1982)
Dark Towers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
Bavarian Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)
To Serve Them All My Days (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)
The Legend of King Arthur (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
Renoir, My Father (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
Fearless Frank (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1978)
BBC2 Play of the Week (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)
The Velvet Glove (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1977)
The Signalman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
A Martyr to the System (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1976)
The Imp of the Perverse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)
Grace (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1975)
Playhouse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
Bedtime Stories (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1974)
Sporting Scenes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
Centre Play (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)
A Ghost Story for Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1971)
Play for Today (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Is That Your Body, Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)
Omnibus (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1967)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)
The Wednesday Play (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)
Career shape
A full career of 100 titles from 1964 to 2020.
Biggest box office
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Highest rated
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Most popular right now
Sense & Sensibility (2008)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Andrew Davies' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 67th percentile, the median of all 19; across their 18 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 62nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up20
- 50th to 74th11
- 25th to 49th6
- Below 25th2
Shape of the crowd
24 of their 39 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved5
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser24
- Broadly Agreed3
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the dialogue 54/100 and the plot and story 46/100 in their films, across 18 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Andrew Davies' work okay for kids?
Across up to 16 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity runs heavier than most films and violence & gore and frightening / intense lighter.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Andrew Davies work with?
People who share at least 2 of Andrew Davies' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Rebecca Eaton shares the most, 12.
Directors
- Diarmuid LawrenceShared titles: Quirke (2013), South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008), Emma (1996)See all 4 shared titles with Diarmuid Lawrence
- John AlexanderShared titles: Quirke (2013), Sense & Sensibility (2008)See all 2 shared titles with John Alexander
- Geoffrey SaxShared titles: Tipping the Velvet (2002), Othello (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Geoffrey Sax
- Paul SeedShared titles: A Rather English Marriage (1998), To Play the King (1993)See all 2 shared titles with Paul Seed
Writers
- Jane AustenShared titles: Sanditon (2019), Sense & Sensibility (2008), Northanger Abbey (2007), Emma (1996), Pride and Prejudice (1995)See all 5 shared titles with Jane Austen
- Charles DickensShared titles: Little Dorrit (2008), Bleak House (2005)See all 2 shared titles with Charles Dickens
- Sarah WatersShared titles: Affinity (2008), Tipping the Velvet (2002)See all 2 shared titles with Sarah Waters
- Helen FieldingShared titles: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)See all 2 shared titles with Helen Fielding
Actors
- Colin FirthShared titles: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Circle of Friends (1995), Pride and Prejudice (1995)See all 4 shared titles with Colin Firth
- Anne ReidShared titles: Sanditon (2019), Affinity (2008)See all 2 shared titles with Anne Reid
- Kris MarshallShared titles: Sanditon (2019), Doctor Zhivago (2002)See all 2 shared titles with Kris Marshall
- Michael GambonShared titles: Quirke (2013), Brideshead Revisited (2008)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Gambon
Composers, cinematographers and editors
- Alan AlmondShared titles: Quirke (2013), South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008), A Room with a View (2007)See all 4 shared titles with Alan Almond
- David HeadShared titles: Quirke (2013), South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008)See all 3 shared titles with David Head
- Rob LaneShared titles: Quirke (2013), South Riding (2011), Daniel Deronda (2002)See all 3 shared titles with Rob Lane
- Jim ParkerShared titles: A Rather English Marriage (1998), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), To Play the King (1993)See all 3 shared titles with Jim Parker
Producers
- Rebecca EatonShared titles: Sanditon (2019), South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008), Sense & Sensibility (2008), A Room with a View (2007), Northanger Abbey (2007), Bleak House (2005), Daniel Deronda (2002), Doctor Zhivago (2002), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996), Middlemarch (1994), To Play the King (1993)See all 12 shared titles with Rebecca Eaton
- Anne PivcevicShared titles: South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008), Sense & Sensibility (2008), Doctor Zhivago (2002), Othello (2001)See all 5 shared titles with Anne Pivcevic
- Lisa OsborneShared titles: Quirke (2013), South Riding (2011), Little Dorrit (2008)See all 3 shared titles with Lisa Osborne
- Gub NealShared titles: Affinity (2008), Warrior Queen (2003), The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)See all 3 shared titles with Gub Neal
