Malcolm Kohll
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Malcolm Kohll was born in 1953 in South Africa. He is a writer and producer.
He attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he trained as a journalist. On completing his course he came to London and did a post-graduate in Film and Television, at Middlesex Polytechnic. He then tried to break into film and television, but found it harder than he had expected.
Malcolm Kohll's first filmed script was for the science fiction series Doctor Who. While he was at the BBC's Script Unit in early 1987 he was contacted by script editor Andrew Cartmel. Kohll began to develop a concept entitled The Flight Of The Chimeron. Shortly before transmission, the decision was made to change the title to the more Fifties-sounding Delta And The Bannermen. Although Cartmel was interested in working with the writer again, Delta and the Bannermen proved to be Kohll's only involvement with Doctor Who, although he was later contacted about the 1996 revival of the series, coproduced by the BBC and Universal Television.
After that he worked on several film comedies, and some serious historical/political work, including a potential mini-series and a pilot for a TV comedy series called "Chastity Brogan-US Marshall." In 1995 he co-produced a film called "No Regrets."
Kohll's most famous project was as one of the producers of the film The 51st State starring Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle. He also the wrote the script to the film The Bone Snatcher.
He is currently writing and producing a film called Barry, which is at pre-production stage.
