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name: "Ben Schiffer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ben-schiffer"
fi1m_id: "ben-schiffer"
tmdb_id: 1221054
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "12 July 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:06:41.413968+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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# Ben Schiffer

## Identity

Ben Schiffer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ben-schiffer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ben-schiffer
- **TMDB ID:** 1221054
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221054

Writer. Born 12 July 1983 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 12 July 1983, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1221054

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ben Schiffer is a British television screenwriter and playwright. Born in Amsterdam in 1983, he moved to London at the age of two and was educated at University College School and Trinity College Dublin, where he graduated with a First-Class Honours B.A. in English and History in 2006.

His early television credits include an episode of Brief Encounters (2006) and Spooks: Code 9 (2008). He wrote five episodes of the Channel 4 series Skins across its first four series (2007–2010) and received a story credit on the 2011 US adaptation. In 2013 he wrote two episodes of Dates, which he also co-executive produced.

Schiffer has contributed episodes to Stan Lee's Lucky Man (2016), Ransom (2017, on which he also served as co-producer), Young Wallander (2020) and Intergalactic (2021). He created and served as showrunner on The Turkish Detective (2023). He has also written for the stage and was selected for the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers Scheme.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Little Bird* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Ransom* (2017), series, Writer
- *Cites* (2015), series, Writer
- *Dates* (2013), series, Writer
- *Skins* (2011), series, Story
- *Spooks: Code 9* (2008), series, Writer
- *Skins* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

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