---
name: "Harry Bradbeer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/harry-bradbeer"
fi1m_id: "harry-bradbeer"
imdb_id: "nm0102873"
tmdb_id: 173847
wikidata_id: "Q97455101"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T17:16:08.541241+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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# Harry Bradbeer

## Identity

Harry Bradbeer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/harry-bradbeer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** harry-bradbeer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0102873
- **TMDB ID:** 173847
- **Wikidata ID:** Q97455101
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bradbeer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97455101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102873/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/173847

Director and producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Phoebe Waller-Bridge](https://film.one/person/phoebe-waller-bridge.md)
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2010s 82 (3), 2020s 67 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 80 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 3, Mystery 2, Comedy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Bradbeer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97455101, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102873/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/173847

## Coming up

- *One Italian Summer* (2028-05-12), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Fleabag*](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md) (90), [*Spider-Noir*](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md) (67)
- **Apple TV:** [*Killing Eve*](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md) (82), [*No Offence*](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md) (73)

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## Fi1m on Harry Bradbeer

> Harry Bradbeer puts actors first, looking for pain beneath comedy and keeping genre stories close to their characters. We value his patience with performers, though the series around them can be thinner than their work deserves.

Harry Bradbeer often ends a scene on a face, trusting an actor to hold our attention rather than hurrying elsewhere. That preference for credible behaviour is a good starting point for *This Life* (1996), and the reason we are inclined to rate his work. The programme makes early professional life funny and affecting, though its opening is a little over-arranged. We were moved by Daniela Nardini and Jack Davenport because they made that untidy stage of life matter to us. The qualification is that this is an ensemble achievement, and praising Bradbeer should not mean forgetting the actors who make it work.

From *This Life*, his television work took him to the lead director's role on *The Cops* (1998), then to eleven of the twelve episodes of *Fleabag* (2016–2019). *Killing Eve* (2018), created by his collaborator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, had him directing its first two episodes. His account of their working relationship is useful: he concentrates on story structure, she on character. Then came *Enola Holmes* (2020), adapting Nancy Springer's novels with Millie Bobby Brown, and *Enola Holmes 2* (2022), which also gave him a story credit. Across comedy, thrillers and adventure, he looks for vulnerability and leaves room for performers' instincts.

*Spider-Noir* (2026) supplies a useful caution: Nicolas Cage as a down-at-heel 1930s private eye is a persuasive reason to watch, but the series around him is less satisfying. Bradbeer directed the first two episodes, so the eight-part programme's excess length cannot fairly be laid entirely at his door. Still, the limitation matters for a director so attentive to actors: Cage holds our interest without supplying everything this handsome, slightly hollow noir pastiche needs. We wanted six episodes rather than eight, and more to occupy us beyond its leading man. Go to *Spider-Noir* for Cage, with some patience for everything arranged around him.

## Biography

Harry Bradbeer is a British director, producer and writer. He directed the television films *As the Beast Sleeps* (2002) and *A Is for Acid* (2002), and episodes of series including *The Cops*, *The Hour*, *Grantchester* (2014), *No Offence* (2015) and *Dickensian* (2015–16).

Bradbeer directed all but one episode of *Fleabag* (2016–19) and the first season of *Killing Eve* (2018). He directed the feature films *Enola Holmes* (2020) and *Enola Holmes 2* (2022), on which he also has a story credit. In 2026 he directed the first two episodes of the series *Spider-Noir* and served as an executive producer.

He graduated from University College London with a degree in Medieval and Modern History and received an honorary Doctor of Literature from the university in 2021. He is married to the writer Nino Strachey.

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Spider-Noir* (2026), Fi1m 67, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *Killing Eve* (2018), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *Fleabag* (2016), Fi1m 90, as Full Bush Man — [page](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md)
- *No Offence* (2015), Fi1m 73, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md)
- *This Life* (1996), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-life.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *One Italian Summer* (2028), Director
- *Spider-Noir* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/spider-noir.md)
- *Enola Holmes 2* (2022), Director, Executive Producer, Story
- *Viewpoint* (2021), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Enola Holmes* (2020), Director, Executive Producer
- *Ramy* (2019), series, Director
- *Killing Eve* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/killing-eve.md)
- *Fleabag* (2016), series, as Full Bush Man · Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/fleabag.md)
- *Dickensian* (2015), series, Director
- *No Offence* (2015), series, Director — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md)
- *Grantchester* (2014), series, Director
- *Prisoners' Wives* (2012), series, Director
- *Perfect Day: The Millennium* (2006), Director
- *The Brides in the Bath* (2003), Writer, Director
- *A Is for Acid* (2002), Director
- *As the Beast Sleeps* (2002), Director
- *Attachments* (2000), series, Director
- *This Life* (1996), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/this-life.md)
- *Eight Perfect Murders*, Director
- *Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine*, Director
- *A Matter of Time*, Director

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 2019: Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series (won), for *Fleabag*

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

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