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name: "Peter Harness"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1976"
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updated: "2026-09-18T10:47:54.956320+00:00"
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# Peter Harness

Writer. Born 1 January 1976 in Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1976, Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Peter Andrew Harness
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Harness, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174544, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1739929/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1240507

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Doctor Who*](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md) (78)

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## Biography

Peter Harness is an English playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor. Born in January 1976 in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, he studied English at Oriel College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Revue. His first original stage play, *Mongoose*, was performed in 2003.

Harness has written extensively for television. He contributed episodes to *Doctor Who* (2005) between 2014 and 2017, adapted *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* (2015) for the BBC, and created the series *Constellation* (2024). Other credits include *The War of the Worlds* (2019), *McMafia* (2018), *Wallander* (2008) and *Case Histories* (2011). He also wrote the feature film *Is Anybody There?* (2009).

He has received the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award and was nominated for a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (2005), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *Young Sherlock* (2026), series, Writer
- *Constellation* (2024), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The War of the Worlds* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *McMafia* (2018), series, Writer
- *Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell* (2015), series, Writer, Creator
- *Case Histories* (2011), series, Writer
- *Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen* (2009), Writer
- *1066: The Battle for Middle Earth* (2009), series, Writer
- *Is Anybody There?* (2009), Cashier, Writer
- *Wallander* (2008), series, Writer
- *Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me* (2008), Writer
- *City of Vice* (2008), series, Screenplay
- *Heist* (2008), Writer
- *A View from a Hill* (2005), Writer
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, Writer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *The People v Gary McKinnon*, Writer

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