---
name: "William Osborne"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-osborne"
fi1m_id: "william-osborne"
imdb_id: "nm0651758"
tmdb_id: 57341
wikidata_id: "Q105753152"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 May 1960"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T20:26:05.338434+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 Osborne

## Identity

William Osborne

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-osborne
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-osborne
- **IMDb ID:** nm0651758
- **TMDB ID:** 57341
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105753152
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Osborne_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105753152, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57341

Writer. Born 17 May 1960 in England.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 May 1960, England
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Osborne_(writer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105753152, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651758/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57341

## Biography

William Osborne is an English screenwriter, author and former barrister. Born in 1960, he was educated at Gresham’s School, Holt, Robert Louis Stevenson School in California, St John’s College, Cambridge, where he studied law and served as Vice President of the Cambridge Footlights, and the Middle Temple.

In the 1980s he moved to Hollywood with writing partner William Davies and began a screenwriting career. Their credits include the screenplay for *Twins* (1988) and later films such as *Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot* (1992), *Ghost in the Machine* (1993), *The Scorpion King* (2002) and *Thunderbirds* (2004). He has also worked as a producer on several projects and contributed to more than sixty films.

Osborne married film producer Debra Hayward in 2001; they have four children. He returned to England and has written children’s fiction, including *Hitler’s Angel* (2012) and *Winter’s Bullet* (2012).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Twins* (1988), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Fat Slags* (2004), Writer
- *Thunderbirds* (2004), Story, Screenplay
- *The Scorpion King* (2002), Screenplay
- *Chilly Dogs* (2001), Writer
- *What Rats Won't Do* (1998), Screenplay
- *Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde* (1995), Screenplay
- *Ghost in the Machine* (1993), Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot* (1992), Screenplay
- *Twins* (1988), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Student Exchange* (1987), Writer

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