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name: "Jimmy Gardner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jimmy-gardner"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 August 1957"
died: "14 December 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:54:45.994065+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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# Jimmy Gardner

Writer. Born 27 August 1957 in Flatwell Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. Died 14 December 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 August 1957, Flatwell Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 14 December 2010

## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, independent.co.uk, thetimes.com, writersguild.blogspot.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *This Life* (1996), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/this-life.md)

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