---
name: "Jimmy Dowdall"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jimmy-dowdall"
fi1m_id: "jimmy-dowdall"
imdb_id: "nm3818666"
tmdb_id: 1092524
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T17:16:08.560701+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."
---

# Jimmy Dowdall

## Identity

Jimmy Dowdall

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jimmy-dowdall
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jimmy-dowdall
- **IMDb ID:** nm3818666
- **TMDB ID:** 1092524
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3818666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1092524

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2004–2015
- **Frequently works with:** [Catherine Morshead](https://film.one/person/catherine-morshead.md), [Jack Lothian](https://film.one/person/jack-lothian.md), [Paul Abbott](https://film.one/person/paul-abbott.md), [Paul Tomalin](https://film.one/person/paul-tomalin.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 75 (1), 2010s 73 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3818666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1092524

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Shameless*](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md) (75), [*No Offence*](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md) (73)

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

## Biography

Jimmy Dowdall is a television writer. He contributed scripts to the Channel 4 series *Shameless* from 2009 to 2013, writing 11 episodes across series 6 to 11.

Other credits include episodes of *No Offence* (2015–2017), *Crossing Lines* (2015), *Living the Dream* (2019) and *Pennyworth* (2020–2021). He also worked as co-executive producer on *Pennyworth*.

*Sources: imdb.com, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *No Offence* (2015), Fi1m 73, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md)
- *Shameless* (2004), Fi1m 75, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler* (2019), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *No Offence* (2015), series, Writer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/no-offence.md)
- *Crossing Lines* (2013), series, Writer
- *Twenty8K* (2012), Writer
- *Shameless* (2004), series, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/shameless.md)

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