---
name: "Anthony Peckham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/anthony-peckham"
fi1m_id: "anthony-peckham"
imdb_id: "nm0669756"
tmdb_id: 71244
wikidata_id: "Q770330"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T11:18:15.548465+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."
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# Anthony Peckham

## Identity

Anthony Peckham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/anthony-peckham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** anthony-peckham
- **IMDb ID:** nm0669756
- **TMDB ID:** 71244
- **Wikidata ID:** Q770330
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Peckham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q770330, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0669756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71244

Writer. Born 1 January 2000 in South Africa.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, South Africa
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Peckham, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q770330, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0669756/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71244

## Biography

Anthony Peckham is a South African-born screenwriter and novelist. He completed an undergraduate degree in English and Classical History at the University of Cape Town before moving to California to study film at San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.A. in Film.

His screenwriting credits include *Don't Say a Word* (2001), the television mini-series *5ive Days to Midnight* (2004), *Invictus* (2009) and *Sherlock Holmes* (2009). For his work on *Invictus*, he received the Christopher Award and the Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award, and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.

Peckham has also written the *Children of the Black Glass* young adult fantasy trilogy, published by Simon & Schuster.

*Sources: anthonypeckham.com, imdb.com, sfgate.com, magazine.sfsu.edu.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), Fi1m 65, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Where is Rocky II?* (2016), Co-Writer
- *Sherlock Holmes* (2009), Screenplay — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/sherlock-holmes.md)
- *Invictus* (2009), Screenplay
- *5ive Days to Midnight* (2004), series, Teleplay
- *Don't Say a Word* (2001), Screenplay
- *The Assassin* (1990), Writer, Story
- *Pattern Recognition*, Screenplay

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2011: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Unknown*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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