Years active 1998–present Name Tom Harper | ||
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Occupation Film producerFilm directorScreenwriterEditorCinematographer Nominations BAFTA Award for Best Short Film, BIFA Award for Best British Short Film Movies The Woman in Black: An, The Scouting Book for, War Book, The Borrowers, Dis/Connected Similar People Phoebe Fox, Helen McCrory, Oaklee Pendergast, Adrian Rawlins, Jeremy Irvine | ||
Tom Harper (born 7 January 1980 in London) is a BAFTA-nominated English film director best known for his work on The Scouting Book for Boys , Peaky Blinders and the BBC TV mini-series War & Peace.
Harper began his career making short films. He wrote and directed Cubs in 2006 about urban fox hunting which was nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Short Film category and won a BIFA.
Harper then moved on to direct a range of film and television work which includes Misfits, The Scouting Book for Boys (2010), This Is England '86, The Borrowers (2011), Peaky Blinders (2013), and The Woman in Black: Angel of Death.
The Scouting Book for Boys was filmed throughout September and October 2008.
In 2014, Harper re-teamed with Jack Thorne, the writer of The Scouting Book for Boys, to make War Book, which premiered at the London Film Festival and had its international premiere as the opening film of the International Festival of Film Rotterdam. The film received critical acclaim with The List calling it a "powerful, provocative and essential piece of modern British cinema". Harper was also a producer on the film.
He directed the 2016 BBC TV mini-series War & Peace, starring Paul Dano, Lily James and James Norton for BBC1 and The Weinstein Company. The series topped ratings and won rave reviews
In 2017, Harper will once again team with Jack Thorne, to make "The Commuter", the opening episode of the Channel 4/Amazon Video anthology series Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.
