Trevor Preston Filmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter

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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Malcolm McDowell, Jamie Foreman

Synopsis: For I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, director Mike Hodges re-teams with Trevor Preston, the respected British television writer with whom he made a series of documentaries for ITV back in the 1960s. The film also brings the director together again with actor Clive Owen, the star of his previous film, Croupier Read More

6/16/04
Little White Lies

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tara Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Elizabeth McGregor, the two-part British miniseries Little White Lies starred Tara Fitzgerald as Beth Marsh, who was left in a state of numb despair when her beloved husband David (Martin Wenner) died in a car crash. Turning to her neighbors Julia (Cherie Lunghi) and Oliver (Peter Bowles Read More

1998
Master of the Moor

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A three-part offering in British television's Ruth Rendell Mysteries anthology, Master of the Moor was set in Dartmoor, the home of a brooding, solitary young man named Stephen Whalby (Colin Firth). Virtually alone since the death of his mother, Stephen wandered the moors day after day, writing Read More

1994
Thicker Than Water

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jonathan Pryce, Robert Pugh

Synopsis: Teresa Russell plays dual roles as twins in this made-for-television English thriller. Based on the book of the same name by Dylan Jones, Russell stars as twin sisters Debbie and Jo. When Jo is killed in a car accident, twin Debbie assumes her sister's life and family, making everyone suspicious Read More

1993
Cold Justice

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Roger Daltrey, Dennis Waterman

Synopsis: When a washed-up boxer (Roger Daltrey) invites a British priest (Dennis Waterman) to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he is. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Crew: Screenwriter

1985
Parker

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bryan Brown, Cherie Lunghi, Kurt Raab, Bob Peck

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, David Parker (Bryan Brown) is a married businessman with three children, a mistress in Germany, and a brother dealing drugs -- a combination of relationships that will eventually prove fatal to several people. After David leaves his London home and family behind for a Read More

1984
Slayground

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Coyote, Mel Smith, Billie Whitelaw, Philip Sayer, Bill Luhrs

Synopsis: In this undistinguished crime drama, Peter Coyote plays a thief on the run after an attempt to rob an armored car in upstate New York ends in the death of a little girl. Her father sends a hitman (Philip Sayer) to avenge her death, and the rest of the film is a long series of near-misses as the Read More

1984
Six Days of Justice

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Six Days of Justice was the modest title applied to this weekly British anthology series, which ultimately tallied up 24 50-minute episodes. Each of these illustrated the workings of British jurisprudence by dramatizing actual cases from various Magistrates' courts. Individual episode titles Read More

1972
What the Peeper Saw

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Oliver! star Mark Lester undertook a change of pace - and then some - with this uncomfortable, Bad Seed-like shocker. He plays Marcus, the preteen son of a recently-remarried, well-to-do writer, whose first wife (Marcus's mother) died a mysterious death. Marcus simultaneously resents his Read More

1971
The Incredible Adventures of Prof. Branestawm [TV Series]

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Woolgar, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Freda Dowie

Synopsis: The Incredible Adventures of Prof. Branestawm was based on a popular 1930s British radio series of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the writings of Norman Hunter. A one-time magician, Hunter was fascinated with intricate gadgets and toys, and he passed this fascination along to his Read More

1969