Jed Mercurio

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Jed Mercurio

Born January 1, 1966 · Staffordshire, England, UK (age 60)

Jed Mercurio was born in Nelson, Lancashire, UK in 1966 but grew up in Cannock, Staffordshire. He graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1991 and practiced as a hospital doctor for three years. While still a medical student, he joined the Royal Air Force and received flying training with the intention of specializing in aviation medicine. Instead, after replying to an advert…

Known For

Lady Chatterley's LoverLady Chatterley's Lover · 2015
Lady Chatterley's Lover
6.32015
MovieRomanceDrama
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
FrankensteinFrankenstein · 2007
Frankenstein
5.62007
MovieDramaTV Movie
Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.
Night of Camp DavidNight of Camp David
Night of Camp David
MovieThriller
A junior U.S. senator comes to believe that the president is mentally unbalanced and sliding into paranoia as he seeks closer ties to the Soviet Union, believes a media cabal is out to get him, and wants to annex Canada.
The Legend of the Tamworth TwoThe Legend of the Tamworth Two · 2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
5.02004
MovieDramaComedy
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...
Line of DutyLine of Duty · 2012
Line of Duty
8.22012
SeriesCrimeDrama
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Strike BackStrike Back · 2010
Strike Back
7.42010
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.
BodyguardBodyguard · 2018
Bodyguard
7.82018
SeriesCrimeDrama
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
Trigger PointTrigger Point · 2022
Trigger Point
6.92022
SeriesCrimeDrama
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.

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The GrimleysThe Grimleys · 1999
The Grimleys
7.61999
SeriesComedy
The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series. The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest - written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' - had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British National Health Service. The filming of the school took place in Salford, Buile Hill High, Hope High and Pendleton College, although the filming of the characters' homes actually took place some 80 miles away in the Dudley area itself; around Parkes Hall Road on the Dudley-Sedgley border.

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