---
name: "David Yallop"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-yallop"
fi1m_id: "david-yallop"
imdb_id: "nm0945173"
tmdb_id: 175973
wikidata_id: "Q287693"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 January 1937"
died: "23 August 2018"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T10:43:37.227940+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."
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# David Yallop

## Identity

David Yallop

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-yallop
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-yallop
- **IMDb ID:** nm0945173
- **TMDB ID:** 175973
- **Wikidata ID:** Q287693
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yallop, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175973

Writer. Born 27 January 1937 in London. Died 23 August 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 January 1937, London
- **Died:** 23 August 2018
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Yallop, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945173/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/175973

## Biography

David Yallop was a British writer of television scripts and non-fiction books. Born David Anthony Yallop in South London on 27 January 1937, he left school at 14 and, after National Service, worked as a studio floor manager at Rediffusion and later London Weekend Television before becoming a full-time television writer in 1965.

He wrote episodes for series including *Crown Court*, *Doctor on the Go* and *Minder* (credited as David A. Yallop or David Yallop on episodes from series 5, 7, 8 and 9). In 1989 he was dismissed as a scriptwriter for *EastEnders* after proposing controversial storylines and successfully sued the BBC for breach of contract. He also wrote screenplays for the films *Beyond Reasonable Doubt* (1980) and *Chicago Joe and the Showgirl* (1990), and co-authored Graham Chapman’s *A Liar’s Autobiography (Volume VI)* (1980).

Yallop’s best-known books examined crime, miscarriages of justice and conspiracies, including *In God’s Name* (1984) on the death of Pope John Paul I. He died on 23 August 2018.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, comedy.co.uk, imdb.com, telegraph.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Minder* (1979), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *The Marchioness Disaster* (2008), Writer
- *An Independent Man* (1995), series, Writer
- *Chicago Joe and the Showgirl* (1990), Screenplay
- *Beyond Reasonable Doubt* (1980), Writer
- *Minder* (1979), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/minder.md)
- *Victorian Scandals* (1976), series, Writer
- *To Encourage the Others* (1972), Writer
- *Orlando* (1965), series, Writer

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