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name: "Patrick Harkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/patrick-harkins"
fi1m_id: "patrick-harkins"
imdb_id: "nm0363161"
tmdb_id: 1087537
wikidata_id: "Q131431454"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:11:35.329570+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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# Patrick Harkins

## Identity

Patrick Harkins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/patrick-harkins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** patrick-harkins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0363161
- **TMDB ID:** 1087537
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131431454
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131431454, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087537

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131431454, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363161/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1087537

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Gold*](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md) (80)

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

## Biography

Patrick Harkins is a British television director. He began his career in the art department and as a propman on films including works by Danny Boyle, Terence Davies, Derek Jarman and Bill Forsyth. While working on the 1990 film *Life Is Sweet*, Mike Leigh encouraged him to pursue directing. He made award-winning short films before directing his first feature, *The Final Curtain* (2002), starring Peter O’Toole.

Harkins has directed numerous British television series. His credits include multiple episodes of *Taggart* (2003–2010), *River City* (2010–2017), *Waterloo Road* (2013–2015), *Hollyoaks* (2014–2019), *The A List* (2018), *Tin Star* (2020), *Guilt* (2021–2023) and the opening episodes of *Happy Valley* series 3 (2023).

He directed all six episodes of the second series of *The Gold* (2025) for the BBC. Harkins received a nomination at the RTS Scotland Awards for his work on the series.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, rochellestevens.com, podcasts.apple.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Gold* (2023), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *The Gold* (2023), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-gold.md)
- *Sea of Souls* (2004), series, Director
- *The Final Curtain* (2002), Director
- *Exterior Park - Day* (1999), Director
- *Nightlife* (1996), Director
- *Small Faces* (1996), Casting
- *Narance* (1995), Director
- *The Last Ten Minutes* (1995), Director
- *Gregory's Girl* (1980), as Kelvin

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