---
name: "Jon Foster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jon-foster"
fi1m_id: "jon-foster"
imdb_id: "nm3202466"
tmdb_id: 1666900
wikidata_id: "Q15039932"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "18 September 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T02:13:05.337683+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."
---

# Jon Foster

## Identity

Jon Foster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jon-foster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jon-foster
- **IMDb ID:** nm3202466
- **TMDB ID:** 1666900
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15039932
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15039932, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3202466/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1666900

Writer. Born 18 September 1981 in Bromley, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 18 September 1981, Bromley, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Frequently works with:** [James Lamont](https://film.one/person/james-lamont.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 73, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Family 2, Adventure 1, Animation 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $211m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15039932, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3202466/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1666900

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Amazing World of Gumball*](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md) (82)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Armstrong and Miller Show*](https://film.one/tv/the-armstrong-and-miller-show.md) (74)
- **Netflix:** [*Paddington in Peru*](https://film.one/film/paddington-in-peru.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Jon Foster is a British screenwriter and television writer. He frequently collaborates with James Lamont and is credited on the screenplay for *Paddington in Peru* (2024), alongside Mark Burton.

Foster's other credits include writing for the animated series *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011–2016) and creating *Wasted* (2016) and *The Adventures of Paddington* (2019–2023). He co-wrote episodes of the BBC sitcom *Cuckoo* (2012–2019) and contributed to *The Harry Hill Movie* (2013). He also co-wrote the 2022 Platinum Jubilee sketch featuring Paddington Bear and Queen Elizabeth II.

Foster and Lamont have received BAFTA and Emmy awards for their work on children's television.

*Sources: bbc.co.uk, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, comedy.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Paddington in Peru* (2024), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/paddington-in-peru.md)
- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)
- *The Armstrong and Miller Show* (2007), Fi1m 74, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-armstrong-and-miller-show.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Paddington in Peru* (2024), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/paddington-in-peru.md)
- *Paddington Meets The Queen* (2022), Writer
- *5 More Sleeps 'til Christmas* (2021), Writer
- *The Adventures of Paddington* (2019), series, Creator
- *It's Not the Robbie Williams Christmas Show* (2019), Writer
- *My Haunted House* (2018), Writer
- *Wasted* (2016), series, Writer, Creator
- *Pompidou* (2015), series, Writer
- *I Live with Models* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Harry Hill Movie* (2013), Writer
- *Cuckoo* (2012), series, Writer
- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), series, as Additional Writing · Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)
- *10 O'Clock Live* (2011), series, Producer's Assistant
- *The Armstrong and Miller Show* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-armstrong-and-miller-show.md)
- *Critterz*, Screenplay

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