---
name: "William Humble"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-humble"
fi1m_id: "william-humble"
imdb_id: "nm0401716"
tmdb_id: 1252209
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "22 December 1948"
died: "15 October 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:37:30.379467+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."
---

# William Humble

## Identity

William Humble

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-humble
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-humble
- **IMDb ID:** nm0401716
- **TMDB ID:** 1252209
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401716/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252209

Writer. Born 22 December 1948 in Carshalton, Surrey, England, UK. Died 15 October 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 22 December 1948, Carshalton, Surrey, England, UK
- **Died:** 15 October 2024
- **Active:** 1989–1991
- **Also known as:** 윌리엄 험블
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401716/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1252209

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

William Humble was a British television writer and dramatist. Born on 22 December 1948 in Carshalton, Surrey, he began his career as a script editor at the BBC in the early 1970s before turning freelance.

He wrote episodes for series including *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (dramatised by the 1992 episode *Death in the Clouds*), *Maigret* and *Emmerdale Farm*, and provided adaptations for *All Creatures Great and Small* (1980) and P. D. James's *The Black Tower* (1985). His original plays and adaptations often drew on real-life stories, among them *On Giant's Shoulders* (1979), *Rules of Justice* (1981) and *Royal Celebration* (1993).

Humble received BAFTA nominations for his work. He died on 15 October 2024.

*Sources: imdb.com, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (23)

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

- *Too Good to Be True* (2003), Writer
- *Too Good to Be True* (2003), series, Writer
- *An Unsuitable Job for a Woman* (1997), series, Screenplay, Writer
- *The Vacillations of Poppy Carew* (1995), Writer
- *Royal Celebration* (1993), Writer
- *Ex* (1991), Writer
- *Hancock* (1991), Writer
- *Screen One* (1989), series, Writer
- *Virtuoso* (1989), Writer
- *Agatha Christie's Poirot* (1989), series, Screenplay — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/agatha-christies-poirot.md)
- *The Black Tower* (1985), series, Writer
- *Poppyland* (1985), Writer
- *Screen Two* (1985), series, Writer
- *Talk to Me* (1984), Writer
- *The Squad* (1980), series, Writer
- *Juliet Bravo* (1980), series, Writer
- *On Giant's Shoulders* (1979), Adaptation
- *Flambards* (1979), series, Writer
- *Black Island* (1979), Writer
- *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978), series, Writer, Adaptation
- *BBC2 Play of the Week* (1977), series, Writer
- *The Paper Lads* (1977), series, Writer
- *A Bunch of Fives* (1977), series, Writer

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