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name: "James Dearden"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-dearden"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 September 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:46:47.470950+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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# James Dearden

Writer. Born 14 September 1949 in London, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 September 1949, London, England
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dearden, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161017, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213139/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67752

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Fatal Attraction*](https://film.one/film/fatal-attraction.md) (70)

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## Biography

James Dearden is a British screenwriter and film director. He was born on 14 September 1949 in London and is the son of director Basil Dearden and actress Melissa Stribling.

Dearden wrote and directed several short films in the 1970s and 1980s, including *The Contraption* (1977) and *Diversion* (1980). He wrote the screenplay for *Fatal Attraction* (1987), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He has directed features including *Pascali's Island* (1988), *A Kiss Before Dying* (1991) and *Rogue Trader* (1999).

Dearden is married to actress Annabel Brooks.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fatal Attraction* (1987), Fi1m 70, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/fatal-attraction.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Unprecedented Crimes* (2024), Producer
- *Fatal Attraction* (2023), series, Screenplay, Teleplay, Writer, Original Film Writer
- *Surviving Christmas with the Relatives* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Belle du Seigneur* (2012), Screenplay
- *Rogue Trader* (1999), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Baazigar* (1993), Original Story
- *A Kiss Before Dying* (1991), Screenplay, Director
- *Pascali's Island* (1988), Director, Writer
- *Fatal Attraction* (1987), Screenplay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/fatal-attraction.md)
- *The Cold Room* (1984), Writer, Director
- *Diversion ...* (1980), Director, Writer
- *Diversion* (1979), Director, Writer
- *The Contraption* (1978), Director
- *Panic* (1978), Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1988: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Fatal Attraction*

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

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