---
name: "Dan Swimer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-swimer"
fi1m_id: "dan-swimer"
imdb_id: "nm2255631"
tmdb_id: 1411385
wikidata_id: "Q5214477"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1972"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T01:02:01.765966+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."
---

# Dan Swimer

## Identity

Dan Swimer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-swimer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-swimer
- **IMDb ID:** nm2255631
- **TMDB ID:** 1411385
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5214477
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Swimer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214477, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2255631/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1411385

Writer. Born 1 January 1972 in Manchester, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1972, Manchester, England, UK
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Anthony Hines](https://film.one/person/anthony-hines.md), [Dan Mazer](https://film.one/person/dan-mazer.md), [Sacha Baron Cohen](https://film.one/person/sacha-baron-cohen.md), [Lee Kern](https://film.one/person/lee-kern.md), [Peter Baynham](https://film.one/person/peter-baynham.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Swimer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5214477, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2255631/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1411385

## Coming up

- *Ali G: Who Iz I?* (2026-10-22), Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ali-g-who-iz-i.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Who Is America?*](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md) (58)

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

## Biography

Dan Swimer is a British television writer and producer. Born in Manchester in 1972, he began his career producing shows such as Popworld and Lily Allen and Friends before moving into writing for panel and comedy series including Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Stand Up for the Week.

He co-wrote the BBC series Grandma's House with Simon Amstell and contributed to Who Is America? (2018) as writer and producer. Swimer received screenplay and story credits on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) and Ali G: Who Iz I? (2026). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Who Is America?* (2018), Fi1m 58, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Ali G: Who Iz I?* (2026), Screenplay, Story — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/ali-g-who-iz-i.md)
- *The Great Amazon Heist* (2023), Writer
- *Bad Education: Reunion* (2022), Script Editor
- *Jonas Brothers Family Roast* (2021), Writer
- *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan* (2020), Story, Screenplay
- *Simon Amstell: Set Free* (2019), Script Consultant
- *Benjamin* (2019), Script Editor
- *Who Is America?* (2018), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/who-is-america.md)
- *Catherine Tate's Nan* (2015), series, Writer
- *Crims* (2015), series, Writer
- *Catherine Tate's Nan* (2014), Writer
- *Psychobitches* (2013), series, Writer
- *BBC Comedy Feeds* (2012), series, Writer
- *Bad Education* (2012), series, Writer
- *Class Dismissed* (2011), Writer
- *How TV Ruined Your Life* (2011), series, as Additional Writing
- *Grandma's House* (2010), series, Writer, Creator
- *Never Mind the Buzzcocks* (1996), series, Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2021: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Borat Subsequent Moviefilm*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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© 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/dan-swimer