---
name: "Jonathan Gems"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jonathan-gems"
fi1m_id: "jonathan-gems"
imdb_id: "nm0312607"
tmdb_id: 513
wikidata_id: "Q3735675"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T09:22:03.320231+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."
---

# Jonathan Gems

## Identity

Jonathan Gems

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jonathan-gems
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jonathan-gems
- **IMDb ID:** nm0312607
- **TMDB ID:** 513
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3735675
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gems, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3735675, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/513

Writer. Born 1 January 1952 in London, United Kingdom.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1952, London, United Kingdom
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Gems, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3735675, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312607/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/513

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Mars Attacks!*](https://film.one/film/mars-attacks.md) (66)

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## Biography

Jonathan Gems is a British playwright and screenwriter. Born in 1952 in London, he is the son of playwright Pam Gems. He began his career writing plays for London fringe theatres in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including *The Tax Exile* (1979) and *Naked Robots* (1980).

Gems later moved into screenwriting. His credits include the screenplay for *White Mischief* (1987), co-written with Michael Radford, and the screenplay for *Mars Attacks!* (1996), directed by Tim Burton. He also wrote the novelisation of the latter film. Gems contributed uncredited rewrite work on *Batman* (1989).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Mars Attacks!* (1996), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/mars-attacks.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *The Treat* (1998), Director, Writer
- *Mars Attacks!* (1996), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/mars-attacks.md)
- *White Mischief* (1987), Screenplay
- *Nightshift* (1981), Additional Dialogue
- *Van Morrison in Ireland* (1981), Writer

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