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name: "Stephen Wakelam"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-wakelam"
fi1m_id: "stephen-wakelam"
tmdb_id: 1963171
roles: ["Translator"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:25:52.851487+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."
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# Stephen Wakelam

## Identity

Stephen Wakelam

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-wakelam
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-wakelam
- **TMDB ID:** 1963171
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1963171

Translator. Born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

## Details

- **Work:** Translator
- **Active:** 1984–1989
- **Also known as:** 스티븐 웨이클램, Steven Wakelam
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1963171

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Agatha Christie's Poirot*](https://film.one/tv/agatha-christies-poirot.md) (83)

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

## Biography

Stephen Wakelam is an English writer and playwright. After studying at Cambridge University he taught English and became head of department at a school in South Yorkshire, before becoming a full-time writer in 1976.

His television work includes adaptations and original scripts such as episodes of *All for Love* (1983), *Gaskin* (1983), *Coppers* (1988) and the dramatisation of Agatha Christie's 'Triangle at Rhodes' for *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989). He has written more than forty performed plays, moving from television to a primary focus on radio drama, often on biographical subjects.

Wakelam served as Young Writers' Tutor at the Royal Court Theatre from 1981 to 1984 and later tutored at the National Theatre Studio. He held Royal Literary Fund writer-in-residence posts at universities in Leeds and Kent (2009–12) and at St Cuthbert's Society, Durham from 2015.

*Sources: imdb.com, wikipedia.org, rlf.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), Fi1m 83, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/tv/agatha-christies-poirot.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Element of Crime* (1984), Fi1m 63, Translator — [page](https://film.one/film/the-element-of-crime.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

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

- *In Suspicious Circumstances* (1991), series, Writer
- *Circles Of Deceit* (1990), Writer
- *Angel Voices* (1989), Writer
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/agatha-christies-poirot.md)
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer
- *Punters* (1984), Writer
- *The Element of Crime* (1984), Translator — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-element-of-crime.md)
- *Letting the Birds Go Free* (1983), Writer
- *Miss A and Miss M* (1983), Writer
- *To the Camp and Back* (1983), Writer
- *Gaskin* (1983), Writer
- *All for Love* (1982), series, Writer, Adaptation
- *Brother to the Ox* (1981), Writer
- *The Latchkey Children* (1980), series, Writer
- *Strangers* (1978), series, Writer
- *Second City Firsts* (1973), series, Writer
- *Late Night Theatre* (1972), series, Writer

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