Writing

Simon Allen

Born June 4, 1975 · Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK (age 51)

Simon Allen's television credits include writing and Executive Producing on Apple's Emmy-winning spy thriller TEHRAN, Executive Producing James Wan and Netflix supernatural anthology TRUE HAUNTING and creating BBC America’s RTS-winning fantasy comedy THE WATCH. Simon Allen served as a writer/producer on the first series of the acclaimed television sequel to Wolfgang Petersen’s DAS BOOT for Sky/…

Known For

Choose or Die

Choose or Die · 2022

MovieHorrorThriller

In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.

Fables of Forgotten Things

Fables of Forgotten Things · 2008

Fables of Forgotten Things

MovieTV MovieDrama

A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.

Breathe

Breathe · 2013

MovieFantasyDrama

A young man falls in love with a ghost you can only see when you don't Breathe.

Floor 9.5

Floor 9.5 · 2018

After a long shift at work, a girl is trapped into a scary dimension from which there seems to be no escape.

The Magic Mile

The Magic Mile · 2005

Healing and boundless possibility come together in this original short film from the UK. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of 'the magic mile.' Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up on the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that even miracles have their limits.

New Tricks

New Tricks · 2004

SeriesDramaComedy

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Strike Back

Strike Back · 2010

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Das Boot

Das Boot · 2018

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

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Choose or Die

Choose or Die · 2022

MovieHorrorThriller

In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced with dangerous choices and reality-warping challenges. After a series of unexpectedly terrifying moments, she realizes she’s no longer playing for the money but for her life.

Writer

Fables of Forgotten Things

Fables of Forgotten Things · 2008

Fables of Forgotten Things

MovieTV MovieDrama

A mysterious drifter and his young friend must save a frightened, forgetful old lady from a memory eating ghost.

Creator

Breathe

Breathe · 2013

MovieFantasyDrama

A young man falls in love with a ghost you can only see when you don't Breathe.

Writer

Floor 9.5

Floor 9.5 · 2018

After a long shift at work, a girl is trapped into a scary dimension from which there seems to be no escape.

Writer

The Magic Mile

The Magic Mile · 2005

Healing and boundless possibility come together in this original short film from the UK. When a deaf girl chances on an abandoned wheelchair, she discovers the incredible secret of 'the magic mile.' Finding herself in a strange and unfamiliar world, she picks up on the trail of the wheelchair's owner who reveals that even miracles have their limits.

Writer

New Tricks

New Tricks · 2004

SeriesDramaComedy

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Writer

Strike Back

Strike Back · 2010

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Writer

Das Boot

Das Boot · 2018

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Writer

The Musketeers

The Musketeers · 2014

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.

Executive Producer

Tehran

Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran's nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar must plan an operation that will place everyone dear to her in jeopardy.

Co-Executive Producer

M.I. High

M.I. High · 2007

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.

Writer

Hunted

SeriesAction & Adventure

Samantha Hunter suspects someone within the private intelligence agency she works at tried to kill her and she seeks to uncover the person behind it.

Associate Producer

Spotless

Spotless · 2015

SeriesDramaCrime

In London, the life of Jean, a troubled crime scene cleaner, is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.

Writer

The Watch

The Watch · 2021

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.

Writer

True Haunting

True Haunting · 2025

SeriesDocumentaryMystery

Paranormal encounters from the viewpoint of those who lived them are detailed through immersive reenactments and present-day interviews.

Executive Producer

The Interceptor

The Interceptor · 2015

The Interceptor

SeriesCrimeDrama

A gripping eight-part series about a state-of-the-art law enforcement team whose unswerving mission is to hunt down some of Britain’s most dangerous criminals. The Interceptor delves into the adventures of a dedicated surveillance team known as the UNIT. Keeping their quarries under ultra-tight surveillance, they take us into the real world inhabited by the criminals of today. And it’s easy to recognize because it’s the same world the rest of us inhabit.

Writer