Glenn Chandler

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Glenn Chandler
Born 1951
Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation Playwright, scriptwriter, novelist
Nationality Scottish
Genres crime fiction
Notable work(s) Taggart
Notable award(s) BAFTA
1991 best drama series award – Taggart

Writers' Guild Award
1993 best original drama series – Taggart

Glenn Chandler is an award-winning[1] Scottish dramatist and novelist. He has written plays for UK theatre and radio; original screenplays for television and movies; television series; and novels.[2] His most well-known work is the Scottish television detective series Taggart which in 2008, celebrates its 25th year of production and is broadcast worldwide.[3]

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[edit] Biography

Chandler was born in 1951 in Edinburgh, and educated at Edinburgh's Royal High School.[4] He moved from Scotland to London and began writing for the Soho Poly, where his early theatre plays were produced.[5] He went on to write for BBC Television and Radio and Granada television's Crown Court (TV series) before creating and writing his own series Taggart for STV.

Chandler created Taggart for STV's Controller of Drama, Robert Love, who wanted to set a police series in Glasgow. Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Glasgow's Maryhill cemetary.[3] The series continued after the death of actor Mark McManus who played the lead role of Jim Taggart. Taggart is now the longest running police drama on British television.[3]

Chandler has written drama for all media, from full-length movie scripts to short radio plays, and has continued to write for his first love - theatre. He has also written fiction and non-fiction books and has begun a crime fiction series of books, featuring Brighton detective, DI Madden.[2]

[edit] Television Writing

[edit] Movies

[edit] Theatre Writing

  • On The Game (Little Theatre Club)
  • The Private (Pitlochry Workshop Theatre, Soho Poly)
  • Biker's Knoll (Directed by Brian Croucher)
  • A Treat (Directed by Brian Croucher at Brighton Actors' Workshop)
  • Moonlight Across The Heather (Directed by Brian Croucher)
  • A Curse (Directed by Brian Croucher, produced in Holland)

[edit] BBC Radio

Schools Radio

  • Inquiry 7 scripts
  • Life Time 2 scripts
  • Teenage Plays: Job, Which Job?

Radio Drama

  • A Little White Lie 30'
  • Rough Play 60'
  • Laddie Time 45'
  • Another Gaff, Another Night 45'
  • The Horseman's Word 30'
  • Wallace's Warblers 30'
  • Green Street Revisited 30'
  • Fisherman's Tales 30'
  • Wayfarers 30'

[edit] Books

DI Madden series

  • Dead Sight (Hodder & Stoughton, October 2004)
  • Savage Tide (Hodder & Stoughton, July 2003)

Horror fiction

  • The Sanctuary (Hamlyn)
  • The Tribe (Hamlyn)

Non fiction

  • Burning Poison (Lea Valley Press)
  • Killer (Mainstream)
  • Taggart's Glasgow (Lennard Publishing)

[edit] Awards

  • BAFTA (1997) Taggart nominated for Best Drama Serial Award[1]
  • BAFTA (1995) nominated Best TV Writer[2]
  • Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award (1993) winner of Best Original Drama Serial[1]
  • BAFTA (1991) Taggart winner of Best Drama Serial Award[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c IMDB Award page for Glenn Chandler. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  2. ^ a b c d MBA official bibliography and full list of writing credits for Glenn Chandler. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  3. ^ a b c SMG productions official history of Taggart. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  4. ^ Edinburgh Royal High School list of Alumni.. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  5. ^ Soho Poly info about writers. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.

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