---
name: "Simon Moore"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-moore"
fi1m_id: "simon-moore"
imdb_id: "nm0601881"
tmdb_id: 21705
wikidata_id: "Q7519378"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 May 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-07T12:25:37.466325+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 Moore

## Identity

Simon Moore

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-moore
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-moore
- **IMDb ID:** nm0601881
- **TMDB ID:** 21705
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7519378
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Moore_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7519378, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21705

Writer. Born 19 May 1961 in England.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 May 1961, England
- **Active:** 1989–2000
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 73 (1), 2000s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Moore_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7519378, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0601881/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21705

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Gulliver's Travels*](https://film.one/tv/gullivers-travels.md) (73)

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## Biography

Simon Moore is a British screenwriter, playwright and director. He created and wrote the 1989 Channel 4 miniseries *Traffik*, about the international drug trade, which later served as the basis for the 2000 film *Traffic*.

Moore wrote the screenplay for the 1995 Western *The Quick and the Dead* and the teleplay for the 1996 miniseries adaptation of *Gulliver's Travels*, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He also wrote and directed the 1991 film noir *Under Suspicion*, and wrote the fantasy miniseries *The 10th Kingdom* (2000) and *Dinotopia* (2002).

As a playwright, Moore adapted Stephen King's novel *Misery* for the stage, with the production premiering in London's West End in 1992. He co-wrote the comedy musical *Up on the Roof*, which he later directed as a 1997 film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Traffic* (2000), Fi1m 82, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/traffic.md)
- *Gulliver's Travels* (1996), Fi1m 73, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/gullivers-travels.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005), Thanks — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/wallace-and-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit.md)
- *Snow Queen* (2002), Writer
- *Snow Queen* (2002), series, Teleplay, Creator
- *Dinotopia* (2002), series, Writer
- *Dinotopia* (2002), series, Writer, Teleplay
- *Traffic* (2000), Original Story — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/traffic.md)
- *The 10th Kingdom* (2000), series, Writer, Producer, Creator
- *Gulliver's Travels* (1996), series, Writer — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/tv/gullivers-travels.md)
- *The Quick and the Dead* (1995), Screenplay
- *Under Suspicion* (1991), Director, Writer
- *Traffik* (1989), series, Writer, Creator
- *Inside Out* (1985), series, Writer, Creator
- *Superhero* (1982), Writer

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