Biography
Jimmy Gardner was a British television writer and creator. He studied on the screenwriting course at the Northern Film School in Leeds, graduating in 1992. His early work included the short film Borderland and a BAFTA-nominated short, The Butterfly Man.
Gardner began writing for television with episodes of The Bill in the mid-1990s. He contributed to the second series of This Life (1996) in 1997. He co-created and wrote for the BBC series The Cops (1998–2001, also known as Stanton Blues), which won BAFTA awards for best drama series in 1999 and 2000. He later co-created and wrote the Channel 4 series Buried (2003), which won a BAFTA in 2004, and created Goldplated (2006). Other credits include Outlanders (2007) and episodes of Outlaws, Missing, Survivors, Inspector George Gently and Outcasts.
Gardner died in London on 14 December 2010, aged 53.
