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David Pirie is a screenwriter, film producer, film critic, and novelist. As a screenwriter, he is known for his noirish original thrillers, classic adaptations and period gothic pieces. [1] In 1998, he was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama Serial for his adaptation of Wilkie Collins 's 1859 novel The Woman in White into "The Woman in White ...
Showing 25 distinct works. sort by. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more books, click here . David Pirie has 25 books on Goodreads with 6906 ratings. David Pirie’s most popular book is The Patient's Eyes.
Producer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. David Pirie is known for Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000), Ashenden (1991) and Never Come Back (1990). Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award. 4 nominations total. Known for:
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David Pirie's 1973 book A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema 1946–1972 is widely acknowledged as an important pioneering work in British film criticism. At the time of its original publication it was striking simply through being a serious study of the British horror film, a category of British cinema that until then had received ...
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- 2009
David Pirie is a screenwriter and author who has written several acclaimed books on the cinema and also created original thrillers and period gothic pieces. He has worked on TV shows such as Poirot, Murderland, and The Woman in White, and films such as BREAKING THE WAVES, BLACK EASTER, and RAINY DAY WOMEN.
About The Patient’s Eyes. As a young medical student in Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, studied under the pioneering, forensic scientist Dr. Joseph Bell. Taking this fact as a starting point, David Pirie weaves a compelling thriller which partners Bell and Doyle as they investigate crime in the strange underworld of ...
A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema 1946-1972 is a 1973 book written by David Pirie analysing the horror films made by the British film industry and attempting to claim them as a legitimate expression of national culture .
