---
name: "Gareth Edwards"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gareth-edwards-1219952"
fi1m_id: "gareth-edwards-1219952"
imdb_id: "nm0249999"
tmdb_id: 1219952
wikidata_id: "Q5522830"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T14:13:31.300254+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."
---

# Gareth Edwards

## Identity

Gareth Edwards

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gareth-edwards-1219952
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gareth-edwards-1219952
- **IMDb ID:** nm0249999
- **TMDB ID:** 1219952
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5522830
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Edwards_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5522830, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219952

Producer. Born 1 January 1965 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1965, Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK
- **Active:** 1999–2006
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Edwards_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5522830, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0249999/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219952

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Spaced*](https://film.one/tv/spaced.md) (86)

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

## Biography

Gareth Edwards is a British radio and television producer and writer. Born in 1965 in Cornwall, England, he is the great-grandson of Hollywood pioneer Albert E. Smith, founder of Vitagraph Studios. After a degree in English he worked in fringe theatre before beginning his broadcasting career as a volunteer at GWR Radio Bristol and as a trainee producer at BBC Radio Light Entertainment in 1991.

Edwards produced the Channel 4 sitcom *Spaced* (1999). He produced *That Mitchell and Webb Sound* (BBC Radio 4, 2003–09), which won a Sony Silver Award in 2004, and its television adaptation *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (BBC Two, 2006–10), which won the BAFTA for best comedy in 2006. Other credits include *Posh Nosh* (2003), *Dead Ringers* (2003–04), *Bleak Expectations* (BBC Radio 4, 2007–11) and its spin-off *The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff* (2011), *Upstart Crow* (2016–20) and *Still Open All Hours* (2013–). He has also written children's books.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/that-mitchell-and-webb-look.md)
- *Spaced* (1999), Fi1m 86, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/spaced.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Shedites* (2026), Producer
- *Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping* (2025), series, Producer
- *Christmas Carole* (2022), Producer
- *Ladhood* (2019), series, Executive Producer
- *Tracey Breaks the News* (2017), series, Executive Producer
- *Young Hyacinth* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Still Open All Hours* (2014), series, Executive Producer
- *The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff* (2012), series, Producer
- *Attila the Hun* (2008), Director
- *That Mitchell and Webb Look* (2006), series, Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/that-mitchell-and-webb-look.md)
- *Posh Nosh* (2003), series, Producer
- *Spaced* (1999), series, Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/spaced.md)
- *Sardines* (1995), Writer
- *Unstable*, Story

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