---
name: "Alistair Beaton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alistair-beaton"
fi1m_id: "alistair-beaton"
imdb_id: "nm1209266"
tmdb_id: 1234093
wikidata_id: "Q4727255"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T10:44:13.924989+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."
---

# Alistair Beaton

## Identity

Alistair Beaton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alistair-beaton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alistair-beaton
- **IMDb ID:** nm1209266
- **TMDB ID:** 1234093
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4727255
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Beaton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4727255, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1209266/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234093

Writer. Born 1 January 1947 in Glasgow.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1947, Glasgow
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Beaton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4727255, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1209266/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1234093

## Biography

Alistair Beaton is a British playwright, satirist, novelist and television writer. Born in Glasgow, he was educated at the universities of Edinburgh, Moscow and Bochum, graduating from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in Russian and German.

Beaton has written for television series including *Not the Nine O'Clock News* (1979–1982), *Spitting Image* (1984–1996) and *Minder* (1985). His television films include *A Very Social Secretary* (2005) and *The Trial of Tony Blair* (2007). He has also written stage plays such as *Feelgood* and novels including *A Planet for the President* (2004). He served as a speechwriter for Gordon Brown.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Minder* (1979), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *At Fifty, Men Kiss Differently* (1999), Writer
- *Tickets for the Titanic* (1987), series, Writer
- *Minder* (1979), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)

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