---
name: "David Evans"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-evans"
fi1m_id: "david-evans"
imdb_id: "nm0262678"
tmdb_id: 18030
wikidata_id: "Q23830915"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 April 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "director"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T16:05:43.250741+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."
---

# David Evans

## Identity

David Evans

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-evans
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-evans
- **IMDb ID:** nm0262678
- **TMDB ID:** 18030
- **Wikidata ID:** Q23830915
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23830915, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262678/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18030

Director. Born 1 April 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 April 1962
- **Active:** 1994–2011
- **Frequently works with:** [Catherine Morshead](https://film.one/person/catherine-morshead.md), [Jeremy Webb](https://film.one/person/jeremy-webb.md), [Metin Hüseyin](https://film.one/person/metin-huseyin.md), [Michael Keillor](https://film.one/person/michael-keillor.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as director, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (1), 2000s 75 (1), 2010s 73 (2)
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23830915, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262678/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18030

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Downton Abbey*](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md) (75), [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Band of Gold*](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md) (72)
- **Disney+:** [*Silk*](https://film.one/tv/silk.md) (71)

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

## Biography

David Evans is a British television and film director. He directed three episodes of the second series of the Channel 4 drama *Shameless* (2005).

His credits include episodes of *Downton Abbey* (2010–2015), *Robin Hood* (2006–2007), *Whitechapel* (2009–2010), *Survivors* (2008–2010), *Jamestown* (2017–2019), *Anne with an E* (2017), *Preacher* (2016–2017) and *Domina* (2021–2023). Feature work includes the film *Fever Pitch* (1997) and the documentary *What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy* (2015).

*Sources: cdn.casarotto.co.uk, comedy.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Silk* (2011), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/silk.md)
- *Downton Abbey* (2010), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md)
- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Band of Gold* (1995), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Maigret* (2025), series, Director
- *Django* (2023), series, Director
- *Domina* (2021), series, Director
- *Gold Digger* (2019), series, Director
- *I Was a Yazidi Slave* (2018), Writer, Director
- *I'm Dying Up Here* (2017), series, Director
- *Jamestown* (2017), series, Director
- *Anne with an E* (2017), series, Director
- *Preacher* (2016), series, Director
- *What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy* (2015), Director, Executive Producer
- *Cucumber* (2015), series, Director
- *The Crimson Field* (2014), series, Director
- *One Night* (2012), series, Director
- *Silk* (2011), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/silk.md)
- *Downton Abbey* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/downton-abbey.md)
- *Whitechapel* (2009), series, Director
- *Unforgiven* (2009), series, Director
- *Survivors* (2008), series, Director
- *The Children* (2008), series, Director
- *The Robber Bride* (2007), Director
- *Mysterious Creatures* (2006), Director
- *Robin Hood* (2006), series, Director
- *Wild at Heart* (2006), series, Director
- *Fever Pitch* (2005), Executive Producer
- *Shameless* (2004), series, Director — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)
- *Reversals* (2003), Director
- *Manchild* (2002), series, Director
- *Independent Lens* (1999), series, Director
- *Our Boy* (1998), Director
- *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (1997), series, Director
- *Fever Pitch* (1997), Director
- *The Grand* (1997), series, Director
- *Band of Gold* (1995), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md)
- *Common As Muck* (1994), series, Director

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Jerusalem Film Festival 2018: Jerusalem Film Festival (won), for *What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy*
- Jerusalem Film Festival 2016: Jerusalem Film Festival (won), for *What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy*

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

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