---
name: "Arthur Hopcraft"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-hopcraft"
fi1m_id: "arthur-hopcraft"
imdb_id: "nm0393938"
tmdb_id: 1239885
wikidata_id: "Q4799119"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "30 November 1932"
died: "22 November 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:08:46.464517+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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# Arthur Hopcraft

## Identity

Arthur Hopcraft

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arthur-hopcraft
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** arthur-hopcraft
- **IMDb ID:** nm0393938
- **TMDB ID:** 1239885
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4799119
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hopcraft, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4799119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393938/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1239885

Writer. Born 30 November 1932 in Shoeburyness, Essex, England, UK. Died 22 November 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 30 November 1932, Shoeburyness, Essex, England, UK
- **Died:** 22 November 2004
- **Active:** 1970–1987
- **Frequently works with:** [Jonathan Powell](https://film.one/person/jonathan-powell.md), [John le Carré](https://film.one/person/john-le-carre.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hopcraft, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4799119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393938/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1239885

## Biography

Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 1932 – 22 November 2004) was a British screenwriter and journalist. He began his career as a sports journalist, writing for local papers, the Daily Mirror, The Guardian and The Observer, and published the book The Football Man: People and Passions in Soccer in 1968.

From the early 1970s he turned to television writing. His credits include plays for Play for Today and the series The Nearly Man, as well as screen adaptations such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Hard Times (1977), Bleak House (1985), A Perfect Spy (1987), A Tale of Two Cities (1989) and Rebecca (1997). He also wrote the screenplay for the film Agatha (1979) and the feature Hostage (1992). Hopcraft received the BAFTA Writers Award in 1986.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1979), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-1979.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *Rebecca* (1997), series, Writer
- *Hostage* (1992), Writer
- *A Tale of Two Cities* (1989), series, Writer, Creator
- *A Perfect Spy* (1987), series, Writer, Creator
- *Bleak House* (1985), series, Writer, Adaptation, Creator
- *Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy* (1979), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-1979.md)
- *Agatha* (1979), Screenplay
- *Hard Times* (1977), series, Writer, Creator
- *Childhood* (1977), series, Writer
- *Victorian Scandals* (1976), series, Writer
- *Wednesday Love* (1975), Writer
- *Nightingale's Boys* (1975), series, Writer
- *The Nearly Man* (1974), Writer
- *Jingle Bells* (1973), Writer
- *Second City Firsts* (1973), series, Writer
- *The Reporters* (1972), Writer
- *Said the Preacher* (1972), Writer
- *The Mosedale Horseshoe* (1971), Writer
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Writer
- *ITV Saturday Night Theatre* (1969), series, Writer
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Writer
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, Writer

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