Name Simon Moore Role Screenplay writer | Plays Up on the Roof | |
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Movies The 10th Kingdom, Under Suspicion, The Quick and the Dead, Traffic, Gulliver's Travels, Up on the Roof Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series Shows Traffik, Gulliver's Travels Books Spoons 1650‑2000, Penknives and Other Folding K, Table Knives and Forks, Blink‑182, Cutlery for the Table: A History Similar People David Carson, Herbert Wise, Brian Eastman, Stephen Gaghan, Steven Soderbergh | ||
Simon Moore is a British screenplay writer. He wrote Traffik miniseries, which was the basis for the Oscar-winning adaptation written for Traffic. He is also the writer and director of the 1991 film Under Suspicion and the fantasy mini series The 10th Kingdom (2000).
He directed Liam Neeson in his Noir thriller Under Suspicion and wrote the cult western The Quick and The Dead, featuring a stellar cast of Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman and Russell Crowe. He wrote the Emmy Award-winning TV series Traffik, later adapted into a film which grossed over $400m worldwide and won four Oscars. His extensive TV work includes some of the biggest miniseries ever - Dinotopia, The Tenth Kingdom and Gulliver's Travels (winner of 5 primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Writing). In 1996 he was awarded The Humanitas Prize for screenwriting. He adapted and directed the stage world premier of Stephen King’s Misery in London’s West End, and his comedy Up On the Roof was nominated for 3 Olivier Awards, including Best Musical.