---
name: "Nick McCarty"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-mccarty"
fi1m_id: "nick-mccarty"
imdb_id: "nm0565426"
tmdb_id: 179596
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:34:22.110099+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."
---

# Nick McCarty

## Identity

Nick McCarty

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-mccarty
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nick-mccarty
- **IMDb ID:** nm0565426
- **TMDB ID:** 179596
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565426/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/179596

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1981–1986
- **Frequently works with:** [Alan Grint](https://film.one/person/alan-grint.md), [Graeme Harper](https://film.one/person/graeme-harper.md), [Ken Grieve](https://film.one/person/ken-grieve.md), [Laurence Moody](https://film.one/person/laurence-moody.md), [Michael Brayshaw](https://film.one/person/michael-brayshaw.md), [Richard Bramall](https://film.one/person/richard-bramall.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565426/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/179596

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Casualty*](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Nick McCarty is a British television and radio writer. He began working as a professional writer at the age of 23 and served as script editor on the BBC series The Revenue Men and The Expert. He co-devised the Southern Television series Spearhead and contributed multiple episodes to it.

His television credits include episodes of Bergerac, Casualty, The Onedin Line, Z Cars, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (the Anne Boleyn episode), Dangerfield and Dramarama. He has also written radio plays and adaptations for the BBC and independent stations, as well as several books including retellings of The Iliad and biographies of historical figures.

McCarty won a Pye Award for his work on The Siege of Golden Hill. He lives in Kew, London, and sometimes in south-west France.

*Sources: imdb.com, suttonelms.org.uk, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casualty* (1986), Fi1m 68, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Against All Odds* (1994), series, Writer
- *Merlin* (1992), Writer
- *Moon and Son* (1992), series, Writer
- *In Suspicious Circumstances* (1991), series, Writer
- *Home Front* (1988), Writer
- *Casualty* (1986), series, Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *ScreenPlay* (1986), series, Writer
- *Dramarama* (1983), series, Writer
- *Airline* (1982), series, Writer
- *Bergerac* (1981), series, Writer
- *The Squad* (1980), series, Writer
- *Spearhead* (1978), series, Writer, Creator
- *Life at Stake* (1978), series, Writer
- *Churchill's People* (1974), series, Writer
- *The Regiment* (1972), series, Writer, Creator
- *The View from Daniel Pike* (1971), series, Writer
- *The Six Wives of Henry VIII* (1970), series, Writer
- *ITV Playhouse* (1967), series, Writer

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