---
name: "Thomas Malory"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/thomas-malory"
fi1m_id: "thomas-malory"
imdb_id: "nm0540627"
tmdb_id: 69729
wikidata_id: "Q309907"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1405"
died: "23 March 1471"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T18:28:40.330279+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."
---

# Thomas Malory

## Identity

Thomas Malory

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/thomas-malory
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** thomas-malory
- **IMDb ID:** nm0540627
- **TMDB ID:** 69729
- **Wikidata ID:** Q309907
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540627/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69729

Writer. Born 1 January 1405 in Warwickshire. Died 23 March 1471.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1405, Warwickshire
- **Died:** 23 March 1471
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 87 (1), 1980s 79 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malory, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0540627/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69729

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Monty Python and the Holy Grail*](https://film.one/film/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail.md) (87)

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## Biography

Sir Thomas Malory was an English knight and writer, best known as the author of *Le Morte d'Arthur*, the major English compilation of Arthurian legends. He completed the work while imprisoned, and it was first printed by William Caxton in 1485.

Malory is credited, uncredited, as a writer on the 1975 film *Monty Python and the Holy Grail*, which draws on the Arthurian tradition he helped shape. His book has also served as source material for other films, including *Knights of the Round Table* (1953) and *Excalibur* (1981).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Excalibur* (1981), Fi1m 79, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/excalibur.md)
- *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* (1975), Fi1m 87, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/monty-python-and-the-holy-grail.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Arthur the King* (1985), Book
- *Morte d'Arthur* (1984), Writer
- *Excalibur* (1981), Novel — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/excalibur.md)
- *King Arthur, the Young Warlord* (1975), Writer
- *Knights of the Round Table* (1953), Writer

## Gallery

- ![First page of William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur 1485](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-d376ec37e35b.png) First page of William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur 1485 — William Caxton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/1485_malory_thomas_le_morte_darthur-image.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Thomas Malory (1857)](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-9a99868183a0.jpg) Thomas Malory (1857) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Chapel_Before_the_Lists.jpg/1280px-Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_Chapel_Before_the_Lists.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Rossetti reworked the painting in 1865. (1857)](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-cc3437d6e342.jpg) Rossetti reworked the painting in 1865. (1857) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Dante_Gabriel_Rossetti_-_The_Death_of_Breuze_Sans_Piti%C3%A9.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Pages from the 1909 edition of Le Morte d'Arthur originally written by Thomas Malory in 1485. This edition had illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley created for an ](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-16e4eef99c60.jpg) Pages from the 1909 edition of Le Morte d'Arthur originally written by Thomas Malory in 1485. This edition had illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley created for an  — Author: Thomas Malory (c.1425-c. 1470) Illustrator:  Aubrey Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Le_Morte_d%27Arthur.jpg/1280px-Le_Morte_d%27Arthur.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A page from the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-3a47c24725f9.jpg) A page from the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur — Sir Thomas Malory, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Morte-Darthur-add_ms_59678_f012v.jpg/1280px-Morte-Darthur-add_ms_59678_f012v.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Page of William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur 1485](https://film.one/media/person/104197/gallery-0b4e504e05aa.jpg) Page of William Caxton's edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur 1485 — William Caxton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Morte_Darthur_incipit.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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