Nigel McCrery
Encyclopedia
Nigel Colin McCrery is an English
screenwriter
and ex-police officer
.
, Nottinghamshire. He attended Bispham Drive Junior School Toton, followed by George Spencer Secondary School, Stapleford
, and Beeston College of Further Education, Beeston
, Nottinghamshire. He married in 1978 moving to West Bridgford
, Nottinghamshire. Together he and his wife Gill had three children, Luke, Emily, and Rebecca. Nigel and Gill are now divorced.
He joined the Nottinghamshire Constabulary in 1978. During his service he worked on a number of murder cases and became interested in Forensic Science. McCrery retired from the police hurt in August 1987 before attending Trinity College, Cambridge
in October of the same year reading Modern History. In 1988 he persuaded Seb Coe and Steve Cram
to race around the Great Court at Trinity College, a race made famous in the film Chariots of Fire
; Coe won by a whisker. The event raised of £50,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital
. He also organised the first ever debate between Cambridge University and Harvard University
once again raising a considerable amount of money for children's charities.
His daughter Emily McCrery now lives in London and works in Events, Rebecca has followed in her father's footsteps taking on a career in Media and Luke is a successful personal trainer residing in Nottingham.
's Graduate Entry Scheme in 1990. After working on a variety of BBC documentaries including All The King's Men, he joined the BBC drama department in 1992 becoming the researcher on the award winning Our Friends in the North
. He then went on to create the series Backup
(1994), Silent Witness
(1995), All The King's Men (1999), Born and Bred
(2002), Impact (2003) and New Tricks (2005).McCrery is now moving from TV into the world of feature films and is currently developing no less than six films including the adaptation of his book 'Core of Evil' to be filmed by Carnaby Films later this year. To be adapted by Gary Young (Harry Brown with Michael Cain) and directed by Julian Gilby (lonely place to die). He has also written several crime novels, Silent Witness (five books) Still Waters (four books with two more to follow). Also written Under the Guns of the Red Baron, History of the VC, History of the SAS, All the King's Men (The Vanished Battalion) and Go Go Go - an account of the Iranian Embassy Siege
in 1980 (To be published by Orion Books April 2010 for the thirtieth anniversary). He has also been commissioned to write two 'Francis Luke' books (World War I naval sagas) and two Indian detective books on the Indian detective Simon Favel. More recently McCrery has finished writing two new 'Silent Witness' short stories for Boxfiction both of which will be published in the middle of November 2011. He is also working on his first stage play 'Going Home' with his friend and writing partner Mark Zakarin. McCrery lives, at his homes between Cork Ireland, London, Italy and LA.
In 1992 while working as an Assistant Producer on the BBC1 show Tomorrow's World
McCrery arranged and paid for the remains of the Russian Royal Family to be brought to the UK for DNA examination. The work was carried out by Peter Gill who with the assistance of the Russian Forensic Scientist Paval Ivanoff established that the remains were indeed those of the Tzar Nicholas II and the rest of his family. The remains were brought over in an old BA travel bag before being placed in the back of his Volvo and taken to Peter Gill's house. "Not many people" McCrery later joked "can say they had the Russian Royal family in the boot of their car."
He worked for HRH The Prince Edward
(a friend from his Cambridge Days) from 2001 to 2002 as Head of Drama at Ardent Productions during which time he attended Prince Edward's wedding.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and ex-police officer
Police officer
A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...
.
Early life
Because of his father's RAF service, Nigel spent much of his early childhood travelling around before finally settling in TotonToton
Toton is a small suburb of Nottingham. It forms part of the Greater Nottingham urban area, and is in the Borough of Broxtowe. The inhabited area is contained within the electoral ward of Toton and Chilwell Meadows...
, Nottinghamshire. He attended Bispham Drive Junior School Toton, followed by George Spencer Secondary School, Stapleford
Stapleford, Nottinghamshire
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, and Beeston College of Further Education, Beeston
Beeston, Nottinghamshire
Beeston is a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is southwest of Nottingham city centre. Although typically regarded as a suburb of the City of Nottingham, and officially designated as part of the Nottingham Urban Area, for local government purposes it is in the borough of Broxtowe, lying outside...
, Nottinghamshire. He married in 1978 moving to West Bridgford
West Bridgford
West Bridgford is a town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies immediately south of the city of Nottingham, delimited by the River Trent; this proximity means that it forms a continuous urban area with Nottingham, effectively makes West Bridgford a suburb of the city, and...
, Nottinghamshire. Together he and his wife Gill had three children, Luke, Emily, and Rebecca. Nigel and Gill are now divorced.
He joined the Nottinghamshire Constabulary in 1978. During his service he worked on a number of murder cases and became interested in Forensic Science. McCrery retired from the police hurt in August 1987 before attending Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
in October of the same year reading Modern History. In 1988 he persuaded Seb Coe and Steve Cram
Steve Cram
Stephen "Steve" Cram MBE is a British retired athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", Cram set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres and the mile during a...
to race around the Great Court at Trinity College, a race made famous in the film Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice....
; Coe won by a whisker. The event raised of £50,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a children's hospital located in London, United Kingdom...
. He also organised the first ever debate between Cambridge University and Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
once again raising a considerable amount of money for children's charities.
His daughter Emily McCrery now lives in London and works in Events, Rebecca has followed in her father's footsteps taking on a career in Media and Luke is a successful personal trainer residing in Nottingham.
Career
He was selected for the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
's Graduate Entry Scheme in 1990. After working on a variety of BBC documentaries including All The King's Men, he joined the BBC drama department in 1992 becoming the researcher on the award winning Our Friends in the North
Our Friends in the North
Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC Two in early 1996...
. He then went on to create the series Backup
Backup (TV series)
Backup was a BBC drama series about the work of a police Operational Support Unit .It ran for two series, between 1995 and 1997.*Series One - Eight episodes , 1995...
(1994), Silent Witness
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
(1995), All The King's Men (1999), Born and Bred
Born and Bred
Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Breds cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village...
(2002), Impact (2003) and New Tricks (2005).McCrery is now moving from TV into the world of feature films and is currently developing no less than six films including the adaptation of his book 'Core of Evil' to be filmed by Carnaby Films later this year. To be adapted by Gary Young (Harry Brown with Michael Cain) and directed by Julian Gilby (lonely place to die). He has also written several crime novels, Silent Witness (five books) Still Waters (four books with two more to follow). Also written Under the Guns of the Red Baron, History of the VC, History of the SAS, All the King's Men (The Vanished Battalion) and Go Go Go - an account of the Iranian Embassy Siege
Iranian Embassy Siege
The Iranian Embassy siege took place from 30 April to 5 May 1980, after a group of six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in South Kensington, London. The gunmen took 26 people hostage—mostly embassy staff, but several visitors and a police officer, who had been guarding the embassy, were also...
in 1980 (To be published by Orion Books April 2010 for the thirtieth anniversary). He has also been commissioned to write two 'Francis Luke' books (World War I naval sagas) and two Indian detective books on the Indian detective Simon Favel. More recently McCrery has finished writing two new 'Silent Witness' short stories for Boxfiction both of which will be published in the middle of November 2011. He is also working on his first stage play 'Going Home' with his friend and writing partner Mark Zakarin. McCrery lives, at his homes between Cork Ireland, London, Italy and LA.
In 1992 while working as an Assistant Producer on the BBC1 show Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's World
Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series, showcasing new developments in the world of science and technology. First aired on 7 July 1965 on BBC1, it ran for 38 years until it was cancelled at the beginning of 2003.- Content :...
McCrery arranged and paid for the remains of the Russian Royal Family to be brought to the UK for DNA examination. The work was carried out by Peter Gill who with the assistance of the Russian Forensic Scientist Paval Ivanoff established that the remains were indeed those of the Tzar Nicholas II and the rest of his family. The remains were brought over in an old BA travel bag before being placed in the back of his Volvo and taken to Peter Gill's house. "Not many people" McCrery later joked "can say they had the Russian Royal family in the boot of their car."
He worked for HRH The Prince Edward
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG GCVO is the third son and fourth child of Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh...
(a friend from his Cambridge Days) from 2001 to 2002 as Head of Drama at Ardent Productions during which time he attended Prince Edward's wedding.