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name: "Ranald Graham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ranald-graham"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 January 1941"
died: "29 August 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T20:36:08.770895+00:00"
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# Ranald Graham

Writer. Born 3 January 1941 in Sandokan, North Borneo. Died 29 August 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 January 1941, Sandokan, North Borneo
- **Died:** 29 August 2010
- **Active:** 1975–1985
- **Works often with:** Murray Smith, Roger Marshall, Viktors Ritelis, William Brayne

## Biography

Ranald Ian Mackenzie Graham (3 January 1941 – 29 August 2010) was a Scottish writer, director and producer. Born to Scottish parents in Sandakan, North Borneo, he spent part of his early childhood interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Kuching during the Second World War. He was educated at Gordonstoun, read English at Trinity College, Dublin, and took an MA in contemporary literature at the University of Birmingham.

Graham wrote six episodes of the ITV series *The Sweeney* (1975–78) and the screenplay for its 1977 feature-film spin-off *Sweeney!*. He contributed five episodes to *The Professionals* (1978–82) and wrote the screenplay for the *Hammer House of Horror* episode "The Two Faces of Evil" (1980). He created and wrote for the series *Dempsey and Makepeace* (1985–86), for which he also served as producer. Other credits include the screenplay for *Shanks* (1974) and producing the series *Yellowthread Street* (1990).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sweeney* (1975), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sweeney.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Dempsey and Makepeace* (1985), Writer

## Also known for

- *Hammer House of Horror* (1980), Screenplay
- *The Professionals* (1977), Writer

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