---
name: "Tim Fywell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tim-fywell"
fi1m_id: "tim-fywell"
imdb_id: "nm0299563"
tmdb_id: 125544
wikidata_id: "Q3528634"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "3 October 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "director"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T12:33:19.843705+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."
---

# Tim Fywell

## Identity

Tim Fywell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tim-fywell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tim-fywell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0299563
- **TMDB ID:** 125544
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3528634
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fywell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3528634, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125544

Director. Born 3 October 1951 in Fulham, London, England.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 3 October 1951, Fulham, London, England
- **Active:** 1981–2014
- **Frequently works with:** [Colin Bucksey](https://film.one/person/colin-bucksey.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as director, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2010s 81 (2)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Mystery 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Fywell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3528634, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125544

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Happy Valley*](https://film.one/tv/happy-valley-2014.md) (88), [*Cracker*](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md) (85)

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## Biography

Tim Fywell is an English television and film director. Born on 3 October 1951 in Fulham, London, he studied English at the University of Cambridge and began his career directing in fringe theatre before moving to the West End. He later trained at the BBC and transitioned to television in the late 1980s.

Fywell gained prominence directing episodes of the crime series *Cracker* (1993). His credits include literary adaptations such as *Madame Bovary* (2000) and *Affinity* (2008), and series episodes of *Happy Valley* (2014), *River* (2015), *Grantchester* (2014–2022) and *The English Game* (2020). Feature films include *I Capture the Castle* (2003) and *Ice Princess* (2005).

*Sources: imdb.com, lfs.org.uk, rottentomatoes.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Happy Valley* (2014), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/happy-valley-2014.md)
- *Masters of Sex* (2013), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-sex.md)
- *Cracker* (1993), Fi1m 85, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

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

- *The English Game* (2020), series, Director
- *River* (2015), series, Director
- *Grantchester* (2014), series, Director
- *Our Girl* (2014), series, Director
- *Happy Valley* (2014), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/happy-valley-2014.md)
- *Dracula* (2013), series, Director
- *Masters of Sex* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/masters-of-sex.md)
- *Wodehouse In Exile* (2013), Director
- *Without You* (2011), series, Director
- *DCI Banks* (2011), series, Director
- *The Turn of the Screw* (2009), Director
- *The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency* (2009), series, Director
- *Affinity* (2008), Director
- *Mistresses* (2008), series, Director
- *Half Broken Things* (2007), Director
- *Lewis* (2007), series, Director
- *Ice Princess* (2005), Director
- *Hear the Silence* (2003), Director
- *I Capture the Castle* (2003), Director
- *Cambridge Spies* (2003), series, Director
- *Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes* (2001), series, Director
- *Waking the Dead* (2001), series, Director
- *North Square* (2000), series, Director
- *Madame Bovary* (2000), series, Director
- *Touch and Go* (1998), Director
- *The Woman In White* (1997), Director
- *The Woman In White* (1997), series, Director
- *The Ice House* (1997), series, Director
- *Norma Jean & Marilyn* (1996), Director
- *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Director
- *Life After Life* (1995), Director
- *A Dark Adapted Eye* (1994), series, Director
- *Cracker* (1993), series, Director — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/cracker.md)
- *Gallowglass* (1993), series, Director
- *A Fatal Inversion* (1992), Director
- *A Fatal Inversion* (1992), series, Director
- *Chalkface* (1991), series, Director
- *She-Play* (1990), series, Director
- *A Fair and Easy Passage* (1990), Director
- *Dancing in the Dark* (1990), Director
- *4 Play* (1989), series, Director
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Director
- *Runners* (1983), Dialogue Coach
- *Brookside* (1982), series, Director
- *Bergerac* (1981), series, Director

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