---
name: "Simon Massey"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-massey"
fi1m_id: "simon-massey"
imdb_id: "nm0557345"
tmdb_id: 42661
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:03:54.778680+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 Massey

## Identity

Simon Massey

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-massey
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-massey
- **IMDb ID:** nm0557345
- **TMDB ID:** 42661
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42661

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1984–2007
- **Frequently works with:** [Chris Clough](https://film.one/person/chris-clough.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557345/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42661

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Skins*](https://film.one/tv/skins.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Simon Massey is a British television director. He has directed episodes of numerous series including *The Bill*, *Ballykissangel*, *Monarch of the Glen*, *Stella* (series 3–6), *Striking Out*, *The Tuckers* and *Young Dracula*.

Massey directed multiple episodes of *Skins*, serving as lead director on series 3 (2009), for which the series won the BAFTA Phillips Audience Award. His earlier credits include the documentaries *Madchester* and *Paper Marilyn* (nominated for a Royal Television Society Award). He is married to actress Lorraine Pilkington.

*Sources: unitedagents.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Skins* (2007), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Weightless* (2018), Director
- *Striking Out* (2017), series, Director
- *Love/Hate* (2010), series, Executive Producer
- *Raw* (2008), series, Director
- *Skins* (2007), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/skins.md)
- *Strange* (2003), series, Director
- *The Safe House* (2002), Director
- *Born and Bred* (2002), series, Director
- *Back Home* (2001), Director
- *In Defence* (2000), series, Director
- *Monarch of the Glen* (2000), series, Director
- *See You Friday* (1997), series, Director
- *True Love* (1996), Director
- *Pie in the Sky* (1994), series, Director
- *Peak Practice* (1993), series, Director
- *Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs. Muriel McKay* (1992), Director
- *In Suspicious Circumstances* (1991), series, Director
- *Madchester: The Sound of the North* (1990), Director
- *The Bill* (1984), series, Director
- *Wuthering Heights* (1978), series, as Hareton Earnshaw

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