---
name: "Charles Cumming"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/charles-cumming"
fi1m_id: "charles-cumming"
imdb_id: "nm5684500"
tmdb_id: 2452930
wikidata_id: "Q281553"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 April 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T16:51:19.367082+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."
---

# Charles Cumming

## Identity

Charles Cumming

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/charles-cumming
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** charles-cumming
- **IMDb ID:** nm5684500
- **TMDB ID:** 2452930
- **Wikidata ID:** Q281553
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cumming, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281553, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5684500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2452930

Writer. Born 5 April 1971 in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 April 1971, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cumming, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281553, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5684500/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2452930

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Plane*](https://film.one/film/plane.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Charles Cumming is a British novelist and screenwriter. Born in Ayr, Scotland in 1971, he was educated at Eton College and the University of Edinburgh.

He has written numerous spy novels, including the Thomas Kell trilogy and the Box 88 series. Cumming provided the story and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2023 action film *Plane*. He also worked on the 2024 television series *The Day of the Jackal*.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Plane* (2023), Fi1m 72, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/plane.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *The Day of the Jackal* (2024), series, Writer, Associate Producer
- *Plane* (2023), Story, Screenplay — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/plane.md)
- *A Spy by Nature*, Novel

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