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Andrew Davies (writer)

Welsh screenwriter and novelist (born 1936)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
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Andrew Wynford Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for his television adaptations of The Signalman (1976), To Serve Them All My Days (1980–1981), House of Cards (1990), Middlemarch (1994), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Bleak House (2005), Mr Selfridge (2013–2016), War & Peace (2016) and Les Misérables (2018–2019), and his original series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996 and awarded the BAFTA Fellowship in 2002.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Davies (writer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.