---
name: "Derek Wax"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/derek-wax"
fi1m_id: "derek-wax"
imdb_id: "nm0915366"
tmdb_id: 1025707
wikidata_id: "Q22087036"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T19:55:51.056889+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."
---

# Derek Wax

## Identity

Derek Wax

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/derek-wax
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** derek-wax
- **IMDb ID:** nm0915366
- **TMDB ID:** 1025707
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22087036
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Wax, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22087036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915366/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1025707

Producer. Born in Manchester.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2004–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (2), 2010s 72 (2), 2020s 80 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 2, War & Politics 2, Mystery 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Wax, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22087036, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915366/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1025707

## Biography

Derek Wax is a British television producer and executive producer. Born in Manchester, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford. He began his career in London theatres before moving into television production at the BBC.

His early producing credits include *Flesh and Blood* (2002) and the Channel 4 series *Sex Traffic* (2004), the latter winning multiple BAFTA awards including Best Drama Serial. He later served as an executive producer at Kudos from 2005 to 2017 and founded Wild Mercury Productions in 2017.

Wax has been executive producer on series including *The Hour* (2011), *Humans* (2015), *Troy: Fall of a City* (2018), *The Rig* (2023) and *The Sixth Commandment* (2023). His brother Kenny Wax is a theatre producer.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Sixth Commandment* (2023), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sixth-commandment.md)
- *Humans* (2015), Fi1m 74, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md)
- *The Hour* (2011), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)
- *Occupation* (2009), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/occupation.md)
- *Sex Traffic* (2004), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Fear* (2025), series, Executive Producer
- *The Sixth Commandment* (2023), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sixth-commandment.md)
- *The Rig* (2023), series, Executive Producer
- *Troy: Fall of a City* (2018), series, Executive Producer
- *Capital* (2015), series, Executive Producer
- *Humans* (2015), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/humans.md)
- *The Hour* (2011), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)
- *Occupation* (2009), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/occupation.md)
- *Plus One* (2009), series, Executive Producer
- *West 10 LDN* (2008), Producer
- *Tsunami: The Aftermath* (2006), series, Executive Producer
- *Sex Traffic* (2004), series, Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/sex-traffic.md)
- *Staying Up* (2002), Producer
- *The King and Us* (2002), Producer

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