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name: "Peter Batt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-batt"
fi1m_id: "peter-batt"
tmdb_id: 1801728
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:29:54.810739+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."
---

# Peter Batt

## Identity

Peter Batt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-batt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-batt
- **TMDB ID:** 1801728
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1801728

Writer. Born in Stepney, east London.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1801728

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*EastEnders*](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md) (70)

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

## Biography

Peter Batt was a British television writer and former sports journalist. He wrote seven episodes of the BBC soap opera *EastEnders* between 1985 and 1986, one of the original writers recruited for the series. He drew on his upbringing in Stepney, east London, for some of the early storylines.

Before turning to television, Batt worked as a reporter and sportswriter for newspapers including the *London Evening News*, the *Daily Herald*, *The Sun* and the *Daily Star*. He also had an acting credit in the 1983 television film *Those Glory Glory Days* and appeared as himself on the chat show *Wogan* in 1986. He died in 2011, aged 77.

*Sources: eastenders.fandom.com, ee-walford.fandom.com, imdb.com, theguardian.com, sportsjournalists.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EastEnders* (1985), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *EastEnders* (1985), series, Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/eastenders.md)

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