
Birthday:
01-01-1949
(76 years)
Birthplace:
Liverpool, England
Biography
Born in Liverpool in September, 1949, James Stanley "Jimmy" McGovern is an English screenwriter and producer. He created the television series Cracker, a popular and critical success in the UK, for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.
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Dockers: Writing the Wrongs
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event1999
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The compelling tale of how a group of sacked dockers got together with scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern and novelist Irvine Welsh to turn their unique story into a film. In September 1995, five men were sacked for walking off the job when their overtime agreement was ditched. Dockers: Writing The Wrongs tells how the dockers spent a year producing the script based on their own experiences of the dramatic two and a half year dispute.
Hillsborough
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event1996 star_border 7
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Drama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
Sleaford Mods: Invisible Britain
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event2015 star_border 7
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Sleaford Mods - Invisible Britain shows the most exciting and uncompromising British band in years sticking two fingers up to the zeitgeist and articulating the rage and desperation of those without a voice in austerity Britain. The film follows Sleaford Mods on a tour of the UK in the run up to the 2015 General Election, visiting the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that many would prefer to ignore. Part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, the documentary features individuals and communities attempting to find hope among the ruins, against a blistering soundtrack by Sleaford Mods.
The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa
Act like Self
event2010 star_border 8.4
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Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash discuss the creation of The Royle Family, with a look behind the scenes at the production of the show and interviews with the cast.
Priest
Writer
event1995 star_border 6.3
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The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
Redfern Now: Promise Me
Creative Producer
event2015 star_border 8
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Two young women are raped on their way home. The story follows the lives of both women and the different ways they deal with the crime.
Needle
Writer
event1990 star_border 10
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Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Dockers
Writer
event1999 star_border 6.5
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Jimmy McGovern's depiction of the mid 90s Liverpool dockers strike. Featuring script contributions from Irvine Welsh and the real dockers themselves
Traitors
Writer
event1990
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A play about the gunpowder plot written from a new angle by Jimmy McGovern.
Sunday
Writer
event2002 star_border 7.4
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Sunday tells the story of an infamous day in Derry, North of Ireland and how the events of that day were subsequently covered up by the British Government of the time. On Sunday 30th January 1972 a peaceful civil rights march against internment (imprisonment without trial), organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) ended with 13 marchers shot dead and 15 wounded. It became known throughout the world as Bloody Sunday. Told primarily from the perspective of the Derry community, juxtaposed with the British Army/state's preparations and reaction to the day, Sunday communicates the forensic and emotional truth of what happened
Reg
Writer
event2016 star_border 5
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In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.
Common
Writer
event2014 star_border 6.4
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Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent bystander to accessory to premeditated murder after giving a few friends a lift.
Gas and Candles
Writer
event1991
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Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats.
Heart
Writer
event1999 star_border 5.5
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A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Liam
Writer
event2001 star_border 6.2
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A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Care
Writer
event2018 star_border 6.6
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Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
Go Now
Writer
event1995 star_border 6.6
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Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Anthony
Writer
event2020 star_border 6
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In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park. He was just 18 years old. This film tells the story of how this talented young man's life might have turned out.
Untitled Jimmy McGovern Drama
Director
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Centres around the Mitchell family, who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the knowledge that it was perpetrated by a member of their own family who, after serving his sentence, has just been released from prison
Cracker: White Ghost
Creator
event1996
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A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
Cracker
Writer (16 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.5
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The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Brookside
Writer (2 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.1
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The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.
Accused
Writer (10 ep.)
event2010 star_border 8.1
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How certain people end up being accused of a crime.
Hearts and Minds
Writer (4 ep.)
event1995 star_border 8
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A young teacher begins work at a tough Liverpool comprehensive, where he has to deal with racism, homophobia and his students' poor backgrounds.
Banished
Writer (7 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.2
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At its heart, Banished is a story of survival. Though it is set in the stark historical reality of the founding of the penal colony in Australia in 1788 after the arrival of the First Fleet, it is not the story of Australia and how it came to be. Rather, it is a tale of love, faith, justice and morality played out on an epic scale in a confined community where the stakes are literally life and death.
The Street
Executive Producer (18 ep.)
event2006 star_border 7.6
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Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
Moving On
Producer (40 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7.1
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Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Writer (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.2
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Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
The Lakes
Writer (14 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.3
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Compelling BBC1 drama series embracing sex, death and Catholic guilt, set in a small community in the Lake District. The first four-part series centred on newcomer Danny Kavanagh; the second 10-part series featured other characters in the community.
Accusé
Creator (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.5
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Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Time
Writer (3 ep.)
event2021 star_border 7.6
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Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
The Play on One
Writer (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6
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A series of plays specially written for television.
Cracker
Creator (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.6
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Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
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