---
name: "Alan Grint"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alan-grint"
fi1m_id: "alan-grint"
imdb_id: "nm0342487"
tmdb_id: 127486
wikidata_id: "Q18214849"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T12:01:38.818133+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alan Grint

## Identity

Alan Grint

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alan-grint
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alan-grint
- **IMDb ID:** nm0342487
- **TMDB ID:** 127486
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18214849
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18214849, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127486

Director. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1960–1991
- **Also known as:** Алан Гринт
- **Frequently works with:** [Laurence Moody](https://film.one/person/laurence-moody.md), [Baz Taylor](https://film.one/person/baz-taylor.md), [Graeme Harper](https://film.one/person/graeme-harper.md), [Ken Grieve](https://film.one/person/ken-grieve.md), [Alan Wareing](https://film.one/person/alan-wareing.md), [Bob Hird](https://film.one/person/bob-hird.md), [Brian Farnham](https://film.one/person/brian-farnham.md), [Gill Wilkinson](https://film.one/person/gill-wilkinson.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 74 (1), 1980s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18214849, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0342487/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/127486

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Coronation Street*](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md) (74), [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

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## Biography

Alan Grint is a British television director. He has directed numerous episodes of long-running series including *Coronation Street* (1960), on which he worked across multiple stints from 1973 to 2019 for a total of around 150 episodes, making him one of its longest-serving directors.

His other credits include episodes of *Bergerac* (1981), *Spender* (1991), *Casualty* (1986), *Play for Today* (1970), *The Bill* (1984), *Peak Practice*, *Brookside*, *Hollyoaks* and *Lark Rise to Candleford*. He has also directed television adaptations such as *Sherlock Holmes* (1984), *The Secret Garden* (1987) and several Catherine Cookson dramas.

*Sources: imdb.com, coronationstreet.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Coronation Street* (1960), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lark Rise to Candleford* (2008), series, Director
- *Hollyoaks: Let Loose* (2005), series, Director
- *A Dinner of Herbs* (2000), series, Director
- *The Secret* (2000), series, Director
- *Tilly Trotter* (1999), series, Director
- *Colour Blind* (1998), series, Director
- *The Round Tower* (1998), series, Director
- *Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs* (1996), Director
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, Director
- *Circles of Deceit* (1993), series, Director
- *Peak Practice* (1993), series, Director of Photography, Director
- *Heartbeat* (1992), series, Director
- *Love Hurts* (1992), series, Director
- *Soldier Soldier* (1991), series, Director
- *Spender* (1991), series, Director
- *Chancer* (1990), series, Director
- *The World of Eddie Weary* (1990), Director
- *The Man in the Brown Suit* (1989), Director
- *The Secret Garden* (1987), Director
- *The Ruth Rendell Mysteries* (1987), series, Director
- *Lost Empires* (1986), series, Writer, Director
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *The Bill* (1984), series, Director
- *Sherlock Holmes* (1984), series, Director
- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes* (1984), series, Director
- *Brookside* (1982), series, Director
- *Love Is Old, Love Is New* (1982), series, Director
- *Bergerac* (1981), series, Director
- *My Father's House* (1981), series, Director
- *Cribb* (1980), series, Director
- *Thicker Than Water* (1980), Director
- *A Horseman Riding By* (1978), series, Director
- *The Sandbaggers* (1978), series, Director
- *Jemima Shore Investigates* (1978), series, Director
- *Send in the Girls* (1978), series, Director
- *Hazell* (1978), series, Director
- *The Sunday Drama* (1977), series, Director
- *This Year Next Year* (1977), series, Director
- *Victorian Scandals* (1976), series, Director
- *The Frontiers of Science* (1976), Director
- *The XYY Man* (1976), series, Director
- *The Stars Look Down* (1975), series, Director
- *The Nearly Man* (1974), series, Director
- *Village Hall* (1974), series, Director
- *Sam* (1973), series, Director
- *Crown Court* (1972), series, Director
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Director
- *Coronation Street* (1960), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/coronation-street.md)

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