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Glenn Wilhide is a British television screenwriter and producer.

Background

Wilhide was born in Maryland United States of America to American parents and educated at Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom, and the University of York where he read English and History of Artist His paternal grandfather, also called Glenn C Wilhide (as was his father) was the inventor of the first hand power drill, for the Black and Decker company in Baltimore.

Career

His first production was The Road Home, a feature film that he produced in Poland for Channel 4 in his early twenties. Reviews for the Royle Family immediately recognised the ground-breaking nature of the comedy and its production quality. So perfect did the Guardian reviewer consider the first series to be, that he imagined the distinguished playwright Samuel Beckett endorsing it above all subsequent series of the show.

Wilhide"s first screenplay, a financial thriller called Extreme Cities, was set to begin filming directed by Roger Donaldson under the title of first "Cities" and then "Icarus Factor" starring Clive Owen, Anil Kapoor, Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in the spring of 2012, but the project stalled.

The Camomile Lawn was directed by Peter Hall (director) and starred Felicity Kendal, Jennifer Ehle, and a young Rebecca Hall. The Manageress, which starred Cherie Lunghi, Tom Georgeson and Warren Clarke ran to two series, and was said to have had a lasting effect on the way women viewed football.

Connections

Partner:
Peter Morgan

Friend:
Sophie Belhetchet