Guy Burt

Guy Burt

Birth : 1972-07-14, United Kingdom

History

Guy Burt is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and novelist. He wrote his first novel (After the Hole) when he was 18. He read English Literature at Oxford and then went on to teach for five years before making the jump to full-time writing when After the Hole was adapted as a feature film. He is the author of two other novels, Sophie and The Dandelion Clock and has been working in film and television since 1999. In 2015 he won a Best Writer BAFTA for his drama Harriet's Army. He is married to Philosophy lecturer Chon Tejedor.

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Guy Burt

Movies

Ghostboat
Ghostboat
Screenplay
Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission that led to her original disappearance. But what's waiting for them under the grey waters of the Baltic Sea turns out to be much worse than the Russian submarines they're expecting. Wherever Scorpion has been all this time, it's brought some very bad luck back with it...
The Hole
The Hole
Novel
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Shockers: The Visitor
Shockers: The Visitor
Writer
Four 20-somethings are coasting through life in a fashionable part of London. A misunderstanding leads to the introduction of a stranger into their home, who starts to take control...