Biography

I am from Yorkshire, came to Birmingham in 1973 to St Peter's College, Saltley to study teacher training ( Physical Education). I taught for 35 years and am now embarking on a change of career. I am an experienced SA and actor and lucky to have met many fine people in the profession. I love to support student films are they are the filmmakers of tomorrow. I possess many regional and international accents. I am now writing screenplays from books. "In the can" are Fallen Angel and Rebellion by John Ling, Gray Justice, Trojan and Run and Hide by Alan McDermott. We need executive producers now ! Run and Hide won best TV screenplay for December 2019 in the Festigious International Film Festival in Los Angeles, won the L.A. Film Festival and was a semi finalist in San Francisco. Trojan won Best Adapted Screen play at the British Film Festival and Feature Script (Outstanding Achievement Award) at the Tokyo Festival. I have also co written Looking for Trouble based on the work of an undercover policeman in Birmingham, England in the 1980s.

My script of Buried Alive? was awarded 'Outstanding Achievement Award' at the Tagore Film Festival in May 2020 and has reached the semi final of the Austin Revolutionary Film Festival (Texas). I am assistant producer for a horror franchise in America entitled Carnival.

My hobbies are golf, football, cricket, keeping fit, reading, crosswords and the cinema.
- IMDb mini biography by: Steve Crawshaw

I have written Tales From Coolshannagh which was Best Script Finalist, quarter finalist at SWN, and selected for Bridge Fest and Hollywood Boulevard Film Festivals. Fitzwilliam High, a mockumentary about a school in England in the 1990s is a finalist at the Rome Prisma Film Festival, received an Honourable mention at the Art Film Awards and was a semi finalist in the Best Script Awards. I was voted best actor at the Couch Film Festival, Toronto for Lost and Hound.
- IMDb mini biography by: Steve Crawshaw