---
name: "Danny King"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/danny-king"
fi1m_id: "danny-king"
imdb_id: "nm0454617"
tmdb_id: 1047109
wikidata_id: "Q5220521"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 March 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:19:40.048740+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."
---

# Danny King

## Identity

Danny King

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/danny-king
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** danny-king
- **IMDb ID:** nm0454617
- **TMDB ID:** 1047109
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5220521
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_King_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5220521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1047109

Writer. Born 5 March 1969 in Slough.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 March 1969, Slough
- **Also known as:** Дэнни Кинг
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_King_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5220521, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1047109

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Wild Bill*](https://film.one/film/wild-bill.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Danny King is a British novelist and screenwriter. Born Daniel Michael King on 5 March 1969 in Slough, he left school at 16 without qualifications. After working as a hod carrier and in other jobs, he studied journalism at Farnborough College of Technology and the London College of Printing. Between 1993 and 2002 he worked on magazines, becoming editor of Mayfair.

He has published more than a dozen books, beginning with *The Burglar Diaries* (2001). His screenwriting credits include the feature films *Wild Bill* (2011), co-written with Dexter Fletcher, and *Eat Locals* (2017). He has also written for television, including the sitcom *Thieves Like Us* (2007), and several short films.

King received the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best First Feature Film for *Wild Bill* and was nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wild Bill* (2011), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/wild-bill.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Romantic* (2019), Novel
- *Eat Locals* (2017), Writer
- *Sunshine on Leith* (2013), Thanks
- *Wild Bill* (2011), Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/wild-bill.md)
- *School for Scumbags*, Novel

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