David Ambrose

David Edwin Ambrose (born 21 February 1943) is a British novelist and screenwriter whose credits include at least 20 Hollywood films, three stage plays, and many hours of television, including the controversial Alternative 3. He was born in Chorley, England, and attended Blackburn Grammar School and Merton College, Oxford.^[1] He is married to artist Laurence Ambrose and lives in Switzerland.

Early life[]

His screenplay for The Survivor (directed by David Hemmings) won the Best Script award at the International Film Festival of Catalonia.

Novels[]

• The Man Who Turned Into Himself, Jonathan Cape, 1993 (UK); reissued by MacMillan (Picador) in 2008
• Mother of God, Macmillan, 1995 (UK); Simon & Schuster, 1996 (US)
• Superstition, Macmillan, 1997 (UK); Warner Books, 1998 (US)
• The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk, Macmillan, 2000 (UK)
• Coincidence, Macmillan, 2001 (UK); Warner Books, 2002 (US)
• A Memory of Demons, Macmillan, 2003 (UK); Pocket Books, 2004 (US)

Short stories[]

• Hollywood Lies, Macmillan, 1996 (UK); Pan, 1998; Reprinted Pocket Books, 2008 (US)

Films[]

• Year of the Gun (1991) – screenplay
• The French Revolution (1989) – screenplay
• Taffin (1988) – screenplay
• D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) – screenplay
• Blackout (1985) – screenplay
• Amityville 3-D (1983) – screenplay (as William Wales)
• The Final Countdown (1980) – story, screenplay
• The Survivor (1980) – screenplay
• A Dangerous Summer (1980) – screenplay
• A Man Called Intrepid (1979) – screenplay
• The Fifth Musketeer (1974) – screenplay

TV specials[]

• Alternative 3 (1977) – original screenplay

TV feature-length films[]

• Remembrance (1996) – screenplay
• Fall From Grace (1994) – screenplay
• Comeback (1987) – screenplay/director
• Disaster on the Coastliner (1979) – screenplay

TV series[]

• Justice – chief writer, two series
• Hadleigh – chief writer, two series
• Colditz – episodes
• Public Eye – episodes
• Oil Strike North – episodes
• Orson Welles Great Mysteries – episodes

TV drama (UK)[]

• Nanny's Boy (1976) – writer
• A Variety of Passion (1975) – writer
• Goose with Pepper (1975) – writer
• Love Me to Death (1974) – writer
• Reckoning Day (1973) – writer
• When the Music Stops (1972) – writer
• The Professional (1972) – writer
• The Undoing (1970) – writer
• The Innocent Ceremony (1970) – writer
• Public Face (1969) – writer

Stage plays[]

• Siege (1972) Cambridge Theatre, London, with Alastair Sim, Stanley Holloway and Michael Bryant
• Abra-Cadaver (1990), UK, with Frank Langella
• Restoration Comedy (1991), Oxford

References[]

External links[]

• David Ambrose official website
• David Ambrose at IMDb
• David Ambrose's Books on Simon & Schuster
• David Ambrose page on Fantastic Fiction
• Mostly Fiction book review: Charlie Monk
• Book review, Mother of God