---
name: "Glenn Patterson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/glenn-patterson"
fi1m_id: "glenn-patterson"
imdb_id: "nm0666225"
tmdb_id: 1155148
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T22:30:43.041302+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."
---

# Glenn Patterson

## Identity

Glenn Patterson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/glenn-patterson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** glenn-patterson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0666225
- **TMDB ID:** 1155148
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1155148

Writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666225/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1155148

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Good Vibrations*](https://film.one/film/good-vibrations.md) (77)

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

## Biography

Glenn Patterson is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied at Methodist College Belfast and graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA and an MA in creative writing.

He is best known as a novelist, with his debut *Burning Your Own* (1988) winning the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a Betty Trask Award. Patterson co-wrote the screenplay for the film *Good Vibrations* (2012) with Colin Carberry. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre. He has also written radio plays, presented BBC documentaries and published collections of journalism.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Good Vibrations* (2012), Fi1m 77, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/good-vibrations.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Good Vibrations* (2012), Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/good-vibrations.md)
- *Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den* (2003), Director
- *Xtro 2: The Second Encounter* (1990), Production Design
- *Mr. Eurovision*, Writer
- *Story Time*, Writer

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