---
name: "Simon Donald"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-donald"
fi1m_id: "simon-donald"
imdb_id: "nm0232049"
tmdb_id: 78993
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T14:40:11.013938+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."
---

# Simon Donald

## Identity

Simon Donald

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-donald
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-donald
- **IMDb ID:** nm0232049
- **TMDB ID:** 78993
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232049/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78993

Writer. Born in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 2001–2006
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232049/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/78993

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Murphy's Law*](https://film.one/tv/murphys-law.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Simon Donald is a Scottish writer and playwright. He began his career in theatre, writing the play *The Life of Stuff* (1997), for which he received the London Evening Standard Theatre Award and the London Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright in 1993. The work was later adapted into a film.

His television and film credits include writing episodes of *Murphy's Law* (2005) and the television film *Low Winter Sun* (2006). He created and wrote the series *The Deep* (2010) and *Fortitude* (2015–2018). Other screenwriting work includes the films *My Life So Far* (1999) and *Beautiful Creatures* (2000). *Low Winter Sun* earned him a BAFTA Television Award nomination for Best Drama Serial.

*Sources: imdb.com, frompage2screen.com, thescottishsun.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Murphy's Law* (2001), Fi1m 63, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/murphys-law.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Fortitude* (2015), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Deep* (2010), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Low Winter Sun* (2006), Writer
- *Murphy's Law* (2001), series, Writer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/murphys-law.md)
- *Beautiful Creatures* (2000), Author, Producer
- *My Life So Far* (1999), Screenplay
- *The Ebb-Tide* (1998), as Dr Lewis · Screenplay
- *The Life of Stuff* (1997), Screenplay, Director
- *Deacon Brodie* (1997), as Andrew Ainslie · Writer
- *Ivanhoe* (1997), series, as Louis Winkelbrand
- *Stalag Luft* (1993), as 'Haggis' Barrington
- *Down Among the Big Boys* (1993), as Aiden
- *Tickets for the Zoo* (1991), as Fraud Officer
- *The Hour of the Lynx* (1991), as Boy
- *Soldier Soldier* (1991), series, as Maj Bob Cochrane
- *The Dunroamin' Rising* (1988), as Policeman
- *City Lights* (1986), series, as William Findlay
- *Knowing The Score* (1986), as Arthur

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