---
name: "Brendan McCarthy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brendan-mccarthy"
fi1m_id: "brendan-mccarthy"
imdb_id: "nm0565068"
tmdb_id: 1468313
wikidata_id: "Q4960985"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:06:00.008276+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."
---

# Brendan McCarthy

## Identity

Brendan McCarthy

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brendan-mccarthy
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brendan-mccarthy
- **IMDb ID:** nm0565068
- **TMDB ID:** 1468313
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4960985
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McCarthy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960985, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1468313

Writer. Born 1 January 1953 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, London
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_McCarthy, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4960985, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565068/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1468313

## Biography

Brendan McCarthy is a British writer, artist and designer who has worked in comics, film and television. He studied Fine Art Painting and Film at Chelsea School of Art in London.

McCarthy contributed stories to the animated series *ReBoot* (1994–1996) and worked as its production designer. He co-wrote the screenplay for *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015) with George Miller and Nick Lathouris, having earlier contributed to films including *Highlander* (1986) and *Lost in Space* (1998) in art and design roles. He is also known for comic work such as *Shade, the Changing Man* and *Rogan Gosh*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-fury-road.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Mad Max: Fury Road* (2015), Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/mad-max-fury-road.md)
- *ReBoot* (1994), series, Story

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