Daniel PeacockFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Ania, Fran and a Kettle of Fish

Crew: Director

2000
Harry and Cosh

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This teen-oriented British comedy series was created by Daniel Peacock, who'd been turning out this sort of fare since the 1980s. Harry Capehorn and Coshti Dowden played title characters Harry and Cosh, a pair of London youths experiencing growing pains while dealing with high school, dating, and Read More

1999
Bang Liberty

Crew: Director

1999
Sister Said

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the popularity of the Spice Girls, the British "musical dramedy" Sister Said concerned itself with the girl group of the title. Hoping to scale the heights of popularity in their native England, the four-member Sister Said -- consisting of Wendy (Wendy Glenn), Clare (Clare Read More

1998
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Actors: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman

Synopsis: This film is a '90s version of the classic Robin Hood story, with Kevin Costner starring as the good-guy thief. Costner is joined in his efforts against the murdering Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) by Morgan Freeman who plays a philosophizing Moor, and by Nick Brimble, who plays Little John Read More

6/14/91
Teenage Health Freak

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The title character in this freewheeling British sitcom was Peter Payne (Alex Langdon), a frustrated teenager living in cozy middle-class complacency with his Dad (series writer Daniel Peacock) and Mum (Tilly Vosburgh). As annoying as his home life may have been at times, it was sheer pleasure Read More

1991
Jackson Pace: The Great Years [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Keith Allen, Daniel Peacock, Josie Lawrence, Hugh Paddick, Cory Pulman

Synopsis: A genial spoof of the Indiana Jones film series, the weekly British children's program Jackson Pace: The Great Years focused on a teenaged explorer-adventurer. Keith Allen starred as Jackson Pace, whose exploits took him all over the world and brought him in contact with a colorful array of Read More

1990
Eat the Rich

Actors: Lanah Pellay, Nosher Powell, Fiona Richmond, Ronald Allen, Sandra Dorne

Synopsis: A restaurant worker (Lanah Pellay) is fired from a posh London eatery, so the man returns with a band of terrorists, who have their own ideas about how to run a restaurant, and they begin feeding new customers with old customers. Motorhead provides the music. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/22/88
The Supergrass

Actors: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Keith Allen

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy that wobbles along on a shaky plot -- the first full-length feature of a Brit TV show -- Dennis (Adrian Edmondson) is on vacation with his mother when he invents a tall tale of his involvement with a drug cartel in order to impress a woman he likes. Sure enough, his story Read More

2/5/88
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Episode 2

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, T.P. McKenna, Jessica Martin, Ricco Ross

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) are attacked by a "killer clown" while attending the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax. As it turns out, the two time travelers are remarkably fortunate: most of Read More

1988
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Episode 1

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Ricco Ross, Daniel Peacock, Ian Reddinton

Synopsis: The 25th season of Doctor Who came to an end with the modestly titled four-parter "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy." Attracted by an advertising satellite, the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) attend the famous "Psychic Circus" on the planet Segonax. Before long, however, the Read More

1988
The Jewel of the Nile

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focas, Avner Eisenberg

Synopsis: The Jewel of the Nile takes up where Romancing the Stone left off, with romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) traveling around the world with her boyfriend, Jack Colton (Michael Douglas). But Joan is becoming bored with Jack and all the romantic attention; as she asks, "How much romance Read More

1985
Party! Party!

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Peacock, Karl Howman, Perry Fenwick, Sean Chapman, Phoebe Nicholls

Synopsis: In this enhanced graduation film by Terry Winsor, the adventures of caricatured teens as they search for sex and romance, saturated with rock music, go on for a long time and in a format that is not always intelligible to the non-teen. It becomes apparent early on that this search is not usually Read More

1983
Bloody Kids

Synopsis: The "Bloody" in Bloody Kids is meant in both its scatological in literal sense. Two restless teens (Derrick O'Connor and Gary Holton) from the South End of London go on a Saturday-night spree. When girls and booze lose their appeal, the boys add murder to their itinerary. A surreal, high-energy Read More

1983
Gandhi

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in Read More

1982
The Trail of the Pink Panther

Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Two years after the death of Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards tried to exhume his corpse in this pastiche of clips and out-takes from the old Pink Panther films. The plot concerns the legendary "Pink Panther" diamond which is once more stolen. Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is again enlisted to Read More

1982
Quadrophenia

Actors: Phil Daniels, Mark Wingett, Philip Davis, Sting, Garry Cooper, Leslie Ash

Synopsis: This film version of the Who's rock opera {^Quadrophenia} makes a few tentative stabs at "explaining" the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop rock-and-R&B musical score, including the hit single "Love Reign O'er Me." Phil Daniels (replacing Read More

1979
Doing Time

Actors: Ron Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde, Peter Vaughan

Synopsis: Doing Time is the American title for the British-made Porridge. Based on a popular TV sitcom, the film stars Ronnie Barker as the unofficial leader of a group of cut-up inmates in Slade Prison. These lovable lawbreakers engineer the escape of a timorous first offender who has been railroaded into Read More

1979