William DaviesFilmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

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Flushed Away

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Bill Nighy

Synopsis: A previously pampered society mouse must fight his way back to the comforts of Kensington after he is sent spiraling into an underground world filled with scavenger rats and villainous toads in a fun-filled family adventure produced by DreamWorks Animation and Aardman Features and featuring the Read More

11/3/06
Alien Autopsy

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly, Bill Pullman, Götz Otto, Morwenna Banks

Synopsis: Director Jonny Campbell teams with screenwriter William Davies for this satirical look at the notorious, purportedly genuine "Alien Autopsy" video that fascinated viewers worldwide before being exposed as an elaborately staged hoax in 1995. Aired in America by the Fox network, the Alien Autopsy Read More

4/14/06
Johnny English

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Ben Miller, Douglas McFerran

Synopsis: An unhinged parody of James Bond theatrics, Johnny English finds Mr. Bean himself suiting up as the eponymous super spy for a series of wild and silly adventures. A lowly pencil pusher working for the MI7 agency, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is Read More

4/11/03
Red Cap [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tamzin Outhwaite, Douglas Hodge, James Thornton, Gordon Kennedy, Blake Ritson

Synopsis: A spin-off of the 2001 TV movie of the same name, the British action-adventure series Red Cap was devoted to the exploits of the U.K. Army's Special Investigation Branch, a team of "military detectives" who pulled off elaborate sting operations to thwart the enemies of democracy. In other words Read More

2003
Ignition

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Colm Feore, Nicholas Lea, Barbara Eve Harris, Bill Pullman, Lena Olin, Peter Kent

Synopsis: The political thriller B-movie Ignition was released straight to video in the U.S. Bull Pullman stars as Conor Gallagher, a former military helicopter pilot who was discharged due to his violent rage. He is assigned to protect Federal Judge Faith Mattis (Lena Olin) after a mail bomb goes off in Read More

2001
The Guilty

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bill Pullman, Gabrielle Anwar, Devon Sawa, Angela Featherstone, Joanne Whalley

Synopsis: Defense lawyer and all-around sleaze Callum Crane (Bill Pullman) has a nice wife (Joanne Whalley), two daughters by his wife's first marriage, and an obscenely perfect house. He also has a drinking problem and a penchant for sexual assault. The second proclivity is on ample display when Crane Read More

2000
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a man whose scientific meddling has unexpected results gets a cross-gender update in this comedy. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a research scientist trying to work his way up the ladder at a major perfume company when he inherits the notebooks of his Read More

1995
Beverly Hills Cop III

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo, Timothy Carhart, Stephen McHattie, John Saxon

Synopsis: The third entry in the popular Beverly Hills Cop series finds Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returning yet again to Southern California, this time on the trail of two car thieves turned murderers. As he teams up again with L.A. cop Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Foley's investigation Read More

1994
Ghost in the Machine

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Karen Allen, Chris Mulkey, Ted Marcoux, Wil Horneff, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: A serial killer is transformed into a computer virus out to destroy more than your hard drive in this sci-fi thriller. Terry Munroe (Karen Allen), a single mother, is looking for a gift for her boss and visits a computer store, where one of the employees demonstrates a hand-held scanner than can Read More

1994
Bermuda Grace

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Andrew Jackson

1993
The Real McCoy

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain, Zach English

Synopsis: Kim Basinger plays a burglar ex-con who's just been released from a 10-year stint and intends to go straight, when a big-time Atlanta crime boss kidnaps her six-year-old son and forces her to pull one last heist. She concocts an elaborate bank job but goes one step further and outwits both the Read More

1993
Grumpy Old Men

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This cheerful holiday comedy, a surprise box office smash, featured a generous dollop of raunchy, crude humor and was greatly elevated by the presence of masterful performers in the lead roles. Jack Lemmon is John Gustafson, an ice-fishing Minnesota native who has been feuding with his neighbor Read More

1993
Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees, Martin Ferrero

Synopsis: Despite his status as a major action star, Sylvester Stallone has made a number of attempts to remodel himself as a comic actor; one of his more infamous efforts in this direction was Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot!. Police detective Joe Bromowski (Sylvester Stallone) has just broken off his Read More

2/21/92
True Identity

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Charles Lane, J.T. Walsh, Anne-Marie Johnson

Synopsis: Charles Lane directed Andy Breckman's script, based on an old "Saturday Night Live" sketch of Breckman's that featured Eddie Murphy. Comic Lenny Henry takes Murphy's place in True Identity as a black man forced to don white face in order to save his life. Henry plays Miles Pope, an agreeable Read More

8/23/91
Short Time

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Gregg Champion, the son of dance stars Marge and Gower Champion, made his feature film directorial debut with this sitcom-influenced cop comedy. Dabney Coleman stars as Burt Simpson, a police detective one week short of retirement, who is told he has a rare blood disease called Wechsler's Curtain Read More

5/4/90
Phobia

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gosia Dobrowolska, Sean Scully

Synopsis: This harrowing psychological thriller chronicles the final hours of the crumbling marriage of Renate and David Simmons (Gosia Dobrowolska and Sean Scully respectively). After enduring nine years of mental anguish with her hard-drinking psychiatrist husband, Renate finally decides to leave him. The Read More

1989
Twins

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston, Chloe Webb, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: The central "gimmick" of the comedy-adventure Twins is established early on. Unbeknownst to one another, king-sized Arnold Schwarzenegger and gnomeish Danny De Vito are twin brothers. Even better: Schwarzenegger is a mild-mannered, bookish type, while De Vito is a vitriolic troublemaker. The film Read More

12/9/88
Student Exchange

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this comedy, two high school seniors pretend to be foreign exchange students and suddenly find themselves among the popular kids. They soon find that such popularity is a double-edged sword. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987