---
name: "Michael Wearing"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-wearing"
fi1m_id: "michael-wearing"
imdb_id: "nm0915725"
tmdb_id: 114480
wikidata_id: "Q1648338"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "12 March 1939"
died: "5 May 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T12:39:15.988799+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."
---

# Michael Wearing

## Identity

Michael Wearing

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-wearing
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-wearing
- **IMDb ID:** nm0915725
- **TMDB ID:** 114480
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1648338
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wearing, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1648338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915725/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114480

Producer. Born 12 March 1939 in United Kingdom. Died 5 May 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 12 March 1939, United Kingdom
- **Died:** 5 May 2017
- **Active:** 1981–1998
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as producer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 83 (3)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 1, War & Politics 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wearing, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1648338, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915725/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114480

## Biography

Michael Wearing was a British television producer who worked extensively on BBC drama productions. He studied anthropology at Durham University and began his career in the theatre before joining the BBC's English Regions Drama department in Birmingham in 1976 as a script editor.

He is best known for producing the acclaimed series *Boys from the Blackstuff* (1982) and *Edge of Darkness* (1985). Wearing later became Head of Serials at the BBC, overseeing productions including *Pride and Prejudice* (1995) and *Our Friends in the North* (1996). He also served as producer on the 2010 feature film adaptation of *Edge of Darkness*.

Wearing received the BAFTA Alan Clarke Award in 1997 and the Royal Television Society's Cyril Bennett Judges Award in 1998. He died in 2017.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, screenonline.org.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Vanity Fair* (1998), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *Our Friends in the North* (1996), Fi1m 88, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/our-friends-in-the-north.md)
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1995), Fi1m 88, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice.md)
- *Edge of Darkness* (1985), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/edge-of-darkness.md)

## Complete filmography (76)

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

- *Edge of Darkness* (2010), Producer
- *Red Mercury* (2005), Producer
- *South West 9* (2001), Co-Producer
- *When the Sky Falls* (2000), Producer
- *Gormenghast* (2000), series, Executive Producer
- *The Tale of the Rat That Wrote* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Aristocrats* (1999), series, Executive Producer
- *Aristocrats* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Human Traffic* (1999), Co-Executive Producer
- *Great Expectations* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Great Expectations* (1999), series, Executive Producer
- *The American* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Vanity Fair* (1998), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *The Scold's Bridle* (1998), Executive Producer
- *Our Mutual Friend* (1998), series, Executive Producer
- *The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling* (1997), series, Executive Producer
- *Holding On* (1997), series, Executive Producer
- *Born to Run* (1997), series, Executive Producer
- *The Missing Postman* (1997), series, Executive Producer
- *Rhodes* (1996), series, Producer
- *Cold Lazarus* (1996), series, Executive Producer
- *Karaoke* (1996), series, Executive Producer
- *Our Friends in the North* (1996), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/our-friends-in-the-north.md)
- *Hetty Wainthropp Investigates* (1996), series, Producer
- *The Final Cut* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Pride and Prejudice* (1995), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/pride-and-prejudice.md)
- *Degrees of Error* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Resort to Murder* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Signs and Wonders* (1995), series, Executive Producer
- *Tears Before Bedtime* (1995), series, Producer
- *Martin Chuzzlewit* (1994), series, Executive Producer
- *Common As Muck* (1994), series, Producer
- *Chandler & Co* (1994), series, Executive Producer
- *Fair Game* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Calling the Shots* (1994), series, Producer
- *Stark* (1993), series, Executive Producer
- *To Play the King* (1993), series, Producer, Executive Producer
- *The Hour of the Pig* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Mr. Wroe's Virgins* (1993), series, Executive Producer
- *The Bogie Man* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Unnatural Pursuits* (1992), series, Executive Producer
- *An Ungentlemanly Act* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Natural Lies* (1992), series, Executive Producer
- *Underbelly* (1992), series, Executive Producer
- *Sleepers* (1991), series, Executive Producer
- *Sleepers* (1991), Executive Producer
- *Aimée* (1991), Producer
- *Die Kinder* (1990), series, Producer
- *Chain* (1990), series, Executive Producer
- *First and Last* (1989), Producer
- *A Master of the Marionettes* (1989), Producer
- *Ice Dance* (1989), Producer
- *Blind Justice* (1988), series, Producer
- *The Play on One* (1988), series, Producer, Executive Producer
- *Bellman and True* (1987), Screenplay, Producer
- *Edge of Darkness* (1985), series, Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/edge-of-darkness.md)
- *Stars of the Roller State Disco* (1984), Producer
- *Rainy Day Women* (1984), Producer
- *King* (1984), Producer
- *Under the Hammer* (1984), Producer
- *Hard Feelings* (1984), Producer
- *Desert of Lies* (1984), Producer
- *Boys from the Blackstuff* (1982), series, Producer
- *Jake's End* (1982), Producer
- *A Cotswold Death* (1982), Producer
- *Clapperclaw* (1981), Director
- *A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado* (1981), Producer
- *The Muscle Market* (1981), Producer
- *The History Man* (1981), series, Producer
- *Bull Week* (1980), series, Producer
- *Trouble with Gregory* (1980), Producer
- *The Black Stuff* (1980), Script Editor
- *Only Connect* (1979), Script Editor
- *Pickersgill People* (1978), series, Script Editor
- *Stargazy on Zummerdown* (1978), Script Editor
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, Producer, Director

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