Production

Andy Harries

Born April 8, 1954 (age 72)

Andrew Harries OBE (born 7 April 1954) is chief executive and co-founder of Left Bank Pictures, a UK-based production company formed in 2007. In a career spanning four decades, he has produced television dramas including The Royle Family, Cold Feet, the revivals of Prime Suspect and Cracker, as well as the BAFTA-winning television play The Deal. In 2006, he received an Academy Award nomination as…

Known For

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman · 2005

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

MovieDramaHistory

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

The Queen

The Queen · 2006

MovieDramaHistory

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

Misbehaviour

Misbehaviour · 2020

MovieDramaHistory

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie · 2018

MovieComedyDrama

With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

The Lady

The Lady · 2011

MovieHistoryDrama

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey · 2007

Northanger Abbey

MovieRomanceDrama

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

The Damned United

The Damned United · 2009

The Damned United

MovieDramaHistory

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

Planespotting

Planespotting · 2005

MovieDramaComedy

Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman · 2005

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

MovieDramaHistory

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.

Executive Producer

The Queen

The Queen · 2006

MovieDramaHistory

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

Producer

Misbehaviour

Misbehaviour · 2020

MovieDramaHistory

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed, the results caused an uproar and turned the Western ideal of beauty on its head.

Executive Producer

Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie · 2018

MovieComedyDrama

With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair's love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public

Executive Producer

The Lady

The Lady · 2011

MovieHistoryDrama

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Producer

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey · 2007

Northanger Abbey

MovieRomanceDrama

A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Executive Producer

The Damned United

The Damned United · 2009

The Damned United

MovieDramaHistory

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

Producer

Planespotting

Planespotting · 2005

MovieDramaComedy

Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.

Executive Producer

The Special Relationship

The Special Relationship · 2010

The Special Relationship

MovieTV MovieDrama

A dramatisation that follows Tony Blair's journey from political understudy waiting in the wings of the world arena to accomplished prime minister standing confidently in the spotlight of centre stage. It is a story about relationships, between two powerful men (Blair and Bill Clinton), two powerful couples, and husbands and wives.

Executive Producer

The Deal

The Deal · 2003

MovieComedyDrama

It is approaching an election in the UK when the leader of the Labour party, John Smith, suffers another in a line of heart attacks and dies. With the leadership campaign about to start the clear choice appears to be Gordon Brown, a stanch Scotsman. However Tony Blair is also beginning to appear more likely as he will appeal to Southern voters who would be turned off by Brown. Blair rings Brown to arrange a meeting to discuss which will go for the job. The film flashbacks to the start of their relationship, sharing an office in Westminster on their first seats.

Executive Producer

Dirty Filthy Love

Dirty Filthy Love · 2005

Dirty Filthy Love

MovieRomanceComedy

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

Executive Producer

Loving Miss Hatto

Loving Miss Hatto · 2012

Loving Miss Hatto

MovieTV MovieDrama

The story of one of Britain's most famous pianists, Joyce Hatto, and her husband William, from their meeting in post-war London to her death in 2006 - after which her recordings were discovered to be one of the biggest hoaxes in classical music history.

Executive Producer

Longford

Longford · 2006

MovieCrimeDrama

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

Executive Producer

Dark River

Dark River · 2017

MovieThrillerDrama

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

Executive Producer

Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley

Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley · 2007

Dead Clever: The Life and Crimes of Julie Bottomley

MovieCrimeDrama

When Julie Bottomley discovers her husband of 10 years has been sleeping with her sister, her first instinct is to kill him. However, rather than risk life imprisonment herself, she devises a better plan to get revenge on Ian by faking her own death and framing him for murder. But can she resist the temptation to let her jailed husband know just how "Dead Clever" she's been?

Executive Producer

Cracker: Nine Eleven

Cracker: Nine Eleven · 2006

Cracker: Nine Eleven

MovieCrimeTV Movie

After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. Instead of spending time with his grandson, son of his married son Mark, Fitz opts to join in the investigation of a serial killer who has an apparent dislike of Americans in the wake of the U.S. Invasion of Iraq.

Executive Producer

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback · 2007

Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback

MovieThrillerDrama

After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media across two continents. With no body to speak of, reported 'sightings' of Peter, and revelations Joanne had cheated on her boyfriend, the public and media in both Britain and Australia refused to accept Joanne's innocence on face value. This is the story of one young woman's courage in the face of one of the most mysterious crimes in Australian history.

Executive Producer

Martín Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas

Martín Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas · 1986

Martín Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas

MovieDocumentary

An exploration into the photography of Martín Chambi and its relation to indigenista movements in Peru.

Director

All in Good Time

All in Good Time · 2012

All in Good Time

MovieComedyRomance

Atul and Vina, a newly-wed couple, are unable to consummate their marriage due to his meddling parents. As a result, both are left frustrated and complications start arising in their relationship.

Executive Producer

The Misadventures of Margaret

The Misadventures of Margaret · 1998

The Misadventures of Margaret

MovieRomanceComedy

A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.

Executive Producer

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch · 1990

Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

MovieDocumentary

Hot off Wild at Heart (1990), winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Johnathan Ross interviews filmmaker David Lynch and his colleagues.

Director

Whose Baby?

Whose Baby? · 2004

Hard-hitting drama about a man who discovers that he has fathered a child only when he is approached by a child support agency. A few years after the fling that led to his unknown fatherhood, the man has settled into a new life, but the establishing of his paternity makes him determined to pursue a relationship with his child, leading to a heartbreaking struggle.

Executive Producer

An Evening with Gary Lineker

An Evening with Gary Lineker · 1994

An Evening with Gary Lineker

MovieComedyDrama

From their 1991 stageplay An Evening with Gary Lineker was adapted for television in 1994 by Arthur Smith and Chris England. The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 Football World Cup semi-final, between England and West Germany, which is taking place in Italy while Monica and Bill are on holiday in Ibiza. Bill desperately wants to watch the match; Monica wants to talk about their relationship.

Producer

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights · 2004

Christmas Lights

MovieComedyDrama

Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?

Executive Producer

Outlander

Outlander · 2014

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Executive Producer

The Crown

The Crown · 2016

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

Executive Producer

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.

Executive Producer

Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect · 1991

SeriesCrimeDrama

Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.

Executive Producer

DCI Banks

DCI Banks · 2011

SeriesCrimeDrama

A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.

Executive Producer

Dept. Q

Dept. Q · 2025

SeriesDramaCrime

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Executive Producer

Wallander

Wallander · 2008

SeriesDramaCrime

This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

Executive Producer

Behind Her Eyes

Behind Her Eyes · 2021

Behind Her Eyes

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

Executive Producer

Cold Feet

Cold Feet · 1998

SeriesComedyDrama

Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a generation which is as confused as it is liberated by the choices it faces, will the chill in their feet put out the passion that burns in their hearts?

Executive Producer

Three Pines

Three Pines · 2022

SeriesCrimeDrama

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate a series of perplexing murders, in the seemingly idyllic village of Three Pines and uncover the buried secrets of its eccentric residents. In the process, Gamache is forced to confront buried secrets of his own. Based on the novels by Louise Penny.

Executive Producer

Without Sin

Without Sin · 2022

SeriesCrimeDrama

Without Sin is a four-part British television drama series created and written by Frances Poletti, and starring Vicky McClure. Produced by Left Bank Pictures, the serial broadcast in its entirety on ITVX on 28 December 2022. Three years on from the death of her daughter, taxi driver Stella Tomlinson continues to grieve as if it were just yesterday. With her family life in tatters, she suddenly receives a message from her daughter's killer.

Executive Producer

The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga · 2002

The Forsyte Saga

The Forsyte Saga is a British-American drama television serial based on John Galsworthy's novel series of the same name. Taking place from the 1870s to the 1920s, three generations of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family are explored.

Executive Producer

This City Is Ours

This City Is Ours · 2025

This City Is Ours

SeriesDramaCrime

Notorious gang boss Ronnie (Sean Bean) steps back from his criminal empire, triggering a violent power struggle between his volatile son Jamie (Jack McMullen) and trusted lieutenant Michael (James Nelson Joyce), who sees his chance to seize control. As rivalries ignite and loyalties fracture, the family behind the city’s cocaine trade descends into open war.

Executive Producer

The Royle Family

The Royle Family · 1998

The Royle Family

The Royle Family is a British sitcom created by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, and produced by Granada Television for BBC Two (series 1) and BBC One (series 2 and 3). It centres on the lives of a television-fixated Manchester family, the Royles, comprising lazy patriarch Jim, his hard-working wife Barbara, their entitled daughter Denise, their put-upon son Antony, and Denise's lad fiancé–later husband–David.

Executive Producer

Who Is Erin Carter?

Who Is Erin Carter? · 2023

Who Is Erin Carter?

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

A British woman's tranquil life in Barcelona spirals out of control when an armed robbery at a supermarket exposes her secret... and violent past.

Executive Producer

Dear England

Dear England · 2026

Haunted by decades of failures, Gareth Southgate becomes England manager and uses psychology to confront fear and pursue victory.

Executive Producer

The Jury

The Jury · 2002

SeriesDramaCrime

The Jury is a British television serial broadcast in 2002. The series was the first ever to be allowed to film inside the historic Old Bailey courthouse.

Executive Producer

Origin

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

A group of troubled passengers wake up on a damaged spaceship abandoned in deep space, each having left behind a dark past in search of a fresh start on a newly colonized planet. As their terrifying situation spirals into paranoia, they come to realize that the greatest threat to their dream of starting over – and indeed their lives – is something far darker than the pasts they were so desperate to escape.

Executive Producer

The Halcyon

The Halcyon · 2017

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.

Executive Producer

White Lines

White Lines · 2020

SeriesDramaCrime

Zoe Walker leaves her quiet life behind to investigate her brother's disappearance in Ibiza, where she quickly heads down a decadent and dangerous path.

Executive Producer

Zen

SeriesCrimeDrama

Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking.

Producer

The Fear Index

The Fear Index · 2022

Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he’s being framed.

Executive Producer

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago · 2002

Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is still married when he meets Lara. Their love story is unfolding against the backdrop of revolution which affects the doctor's career, his family, and his love to Lara.

Executive Producer

Quiz

The story of Charles Ingram, a former British army major who caused a major scandal in the early 2000s after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Ingram, his wife Diana and an accomplice, Tecwen Whittock, who was sitting in the audience, initially pulled off the on-screen heist before being caught and standing trial.

Executive Producer