Name Ed Whitmore Role Screenwriter | Movies Mister Foe, Identity | |
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Awards Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay Shows CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Nominations British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay Similar David Mackenzie, Peter Jinks, Gary Fleder, Sophia Myles, Anthony E Zuiker | ||
Ed Whitmore is a British screenwriter. He has written for a number of successful British TV series such as Waking the Dead. In 2003 he wrote the Waking The Dead episode "Multistory", directed by Robert Bierman, which won the show an Emmy for Best International Drama Series. He adapted the book Hallam Foe into a successful film, for which he was subsequently nominated at the Moët et Chandon British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) for Best Screenplay, (losing to Patrick Marber's Notes on a Scandal), as well as the BAFTA-winning Sea of Souls, for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. Most recently, he created and wrote ITV drama Identity, which was aired on British TV in the summer of 2010; the remake rights were then sold to the ABC Network in America.
Ed Whitmore is an alumnus of Westfield College.