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Jeremy Brock MBE (born 1959) is a British writer and director whose works include the screenplays '' Mrs Brown'', ''
Driving Lessons ''Driving Lessons'' is a 2006 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an ageing eccentric actress. Plot Seventeen-year-old Ben Marshall is the sensitiv ...
'', ''
The Last King of Scotland ''The Last King of Scotland'' is a novel by journalist Giles Foden, published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction an ...
'', '' Charlotte Gray'', and '' The Eagle''. Brock has also written two plays for the Hampstead downstairs theatre.


Early life

He was born in
Malvern, Worcestershire Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England. It lies at the foot of the Malvern Hills, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The centre of Malvern, Great Malvern, is a historic conservation area, which gre ...
. He had an older brother (born 1952) and sister (born 1954). He studied drama at the
University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...
, where he met Paul Unwin in 1979.BBC blog
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Career

His awards include the ''Evening Standard'' award for ''Mrs. Brown''. ''Driving Lessons'' was entered into the
28th Moscow International Film Festival The 28th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 23 June to 2 July 2006. The Golden George was awarded to the Swedish film '' About Sara'' directed by Othman Karim. Jury * Andrzej Żuławski (Poland – Head of the Jury) * Alexei Uchi ...
, where it won the Special Jury Prize. In 2007, he received the BAFTA award for best-adapted screenplay for ''
The Last King of Scotland ''The Last King of Scotland'' is a novel by journalist Giles Foden, published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction an ...
'', co-written with
Peter Morgan Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is the playwright behind '' The Audience'' and '' Frost/Nixon'' and the screenwriter of ''The Queen'' (2006), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), '' The Damned Unit ...
.


Casualty

He is the co-creator of '' Casualty'' with Paul Unwin. They created ''Casualty'' in reaction to what they saw as a " Thatcherite attack on our
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", and that in 1985, "it felt like all that good work was about to be dismantled". Both Unwin and Brock had a shared love of ''
M*A*S*H ''M*A*S*H'' (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American media franchise consisting of a series of novels, a film, several television series, plays, and other properties, and based on the semi-autobiographical fiction of Richard Hooker. T ...
''. The A&E department that they created was to be their "frontline in the battle for the soul of the NHS". They wanted to create something less ''cosy'' than the 1970s ''
Angels In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God. Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles incl ...
''. Much of their knowledge came from Peter Salt of Bristol Royal Infirmary. The first series owed much to the Welsh producer Geraint Morris.


Filmography

*'' Mrs Brown'' (1997) *'' Charlotte Gray'' (2001) *''
Driving Lessons ''Driving Lessons'' is a 2006 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeremy Brock. The plot focuses on the relationship between a shy teenaged boy and an ageing eccentric actress. Plot Seventeen-year-old Ben Marshall is the sensitiv ...
'' (2006) *''
The Last King of Scotland ''The Last King of Scotland'' is a novel by journalist Giles Foden, published by Faber and Faber in 1998. Focusing on the rise of Ugandan President Idi Amin and his reign as dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction an ...
'' (2006) *''
Brideshead Revisited ''Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder'' is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles ...
'' (2008) *'' I Am Slave'' (2010) *'' The Eagle'' (2011) *''
How I Live Now ''How I Live Now'' is a novel by Meg Rosoff, first published in 2004. It received generally positive reviews and won the British Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the American Printz Award for young-adult literature. Plot Fifteen-year-ol ...
'' (2013) *'' A Little Chaos'' (2014)


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* 1959 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol Best Adapted Screenplay BAFTA Award winners British male screenwriters British television writers English film directors English male television actors Holby Members of the Order of the British Empire People from Malvern, Worcestershire People from the London Borough of Camden Writers from Worcestershire British male television writers {{UK-film-director-stub