---
name: "Brian Fillis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brian-fillis"
fi1m_id: "brian-fillis"
imdb_id: "nm2282902"
tmdb_id: 1008165
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T18:18:49.984054+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."
---

# Brian Fillis

## Identity

Brian Fillis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brian-fillis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brian-fillis
- **IMDb ID:** nm2282902
- **TMDB ID:** 1008165
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2282902/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1008165

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2282902/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1008165

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Against the Law*](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Brian Fillis is a British writer for television and film. He began his career as a mathematics teacher, qualifying in 1996 and later working as a teaching consultant, while also writing plays. His television debut came with the 2006 BBC Four drama *Fear of Fanny*, an adaptation of his own stage play about cookery writer Fanny Cradock.

Fillis is known for writing *An Englishman in New York* (2009), the Channel 4 series *Sirens* (2011), which he created, and the 2017 BBC drama *Against the Law*, a factual drama about the Montagu trial. Other credits include *The Curse of Steptoe* (2008), *Excluded* (2010), *Tatau* (2015), *Trust* (2018) and episodes of *Queers* (2017). He has contributed to the revival of *Bergerac* (2025).

He received a BAFTA Television Craft Award nomination for Breakthrough Talent in 2007.

*Sources: imdb.com, doollee.com, filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Against the Law* (2017), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *Bergerac* (2025), series, Writer
- *Trust* (2018), series, Writer
- *Queers.* (2017), series, Writer
- *Against the Law* (2017), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/against-the-law.md)
- *Sirens* (2011), series, Writer, Creator
- *An Englishman in New York* (2009), Writer
- *The Curse of Steptoe* (2008), Writer
- *Fear of Fanny* (2006), Writer

---
© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/brian-fillis