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name: "Malcolm Bradbury"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/malcolm-bradbury"
fi1m_id: "malcolm-bradbury"
imdb_id: "nm0102903"
tmdb_id: 131610
wikidata_id: "Q974539"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "7 September 1932"
died: "28 November 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:17:23.663130+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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# Malcolm Bradbury

## Identity

Malcolm Bradbury

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/malcolm-bradbury
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** malcolm-bradbury
- **IMDb ID:** nm0102903
- **TMDB ID:** 131610
- **Wikidata ID:** Q974539
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bradbury, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102903/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131610

Writer. Born 7 September 1932 in Sheffield. Died 28 November 2000.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 7 September 1932, Sheffield
- **Died:** 28 November 2000
- **Active:** 1970–1992
- **Frequently works with:** [Robert Knights](https://film.one/person/robert-knights.md), [Alan Dossor](https://film.one/person/alan-dossor.md), [Alma Cullen](https://film.one/person/alma-cullen.md), [Anthony Simmons](https://film.one/person/anthony-simmons.md), [David Jason](https://film.one/person/david-jason.md), [Herbert Wise](https://film.one/person/herbert-wise.md), [John Glenister](https://film.one/person/john-glenister.md), [Paul Seed](https://film.one/person/paul-seed.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Bradbury, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0102903/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131610

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*A Touch of Frost*](https://film.one/tv/a-touch-of-frost.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Malcolm Bradbury was an English novelist, critic, academic and television writer. Born in Sheffield, he studied at the University of Leicester, Queen Mary College London and the University of Manchester. He taught at several universities and co-founded the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia.

His best-known novel, *The History Man* (1975), was adapted for television in 1981. He wrote the screenplay for the 1987 series *Porterhouse Blue* and contributed episodes and screenplays to series including *Play for Today*, *A Touch of Frost* (from 1992), *Inspector Morse*, *Dalziel and Pascoe* and the 1995 adaptation of *Cold Comfort Farm*. He was appointed CBE in 1991 and knighted in 2000 for services to literature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, panmacmillan.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Touch of Frost* (1992), Fi1m 76, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/a-touch-of-frost.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *In the Red* (1998), series, Adaptation, Creator
- *Cuts* (1996), Novel
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, Writer
- *Kavanagh Q.C.* (1995), series, Writer
- *Cold Comfort Farm* (1995), Screenplay
- *A Touch of Frost* (1992), series, Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/a-touch-of-frost.md)
- *The Gravy Train Goes East* (1991), series, Writer
- *The Green Man* (1990), series, Writer
- *The Gravy Train* (1990), series, Writer
- *Anything More Would Be Greedy* (1989), series, Writer
- *Imaginary Friends* (1987), series, Writer
- *Porterhouse Blue* (1987), series, Writer
- *Blott on the Landscape* (1985), Writer
- *Blott on the Landscape* (1985), series, Writer
- *The History Man* (1981), series, Novel
- *Standing in for Henry* (1980), Writer
- *The Enigma* (1980), Writer
- *Love on a Gunboat* (1977), Writer
- *Stones* (1976), Writer
- *The After Dinner Game* (1975), Writer
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, Writer, Theatre Play
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, Writer
- *Swizzlewick* (1964), series, Writer

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Booker Prize 1983: Booker Prize (nominated), for *Rates of Exchange*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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