---
name: "Matthew Hall"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/matthew-hall-5456393"
fi1m_id: "matthew-hall-5456393"
tmdb_id: 5456393
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 May 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T13:48:36.966787+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."
---

# Matthew Hall

## Identity

Matthew Hall

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/matthew-hall-5456393
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** matthew-hall-5456393
- **TMDB ID:** 5456393
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5456393

Writer. Born 1 May 1967.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 May 1967
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5456393

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Foyle's War*](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Matthew Hall is a British screenwriter and novelist. He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and Worcester College, Oxford, where he read law. Called to the Bar in 1990, he practised as a barrister before becoming a full-time writer in 1995.

Hall began his television career writing episodes of *Kavanagh QC*. His credits include an episode of *Foyle's War* (2002), as well as work on *Holby City*, *Blue Murder* and *New Street Law*, which he co-created. He created and wrote the BBC Wales series *Keeping Faith* (2017–2021), for which he won a BAFTA Cymru award.

Hall has also written a series of crime novels featuring coroner Jenny Cooper, beginning with *The Coroner* (2009).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Foyle's War* (2002), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *Foyle's War* (2002), series, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/foyles-war.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/matthew-hall-5456393