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English screenwriter and producer
William Davies (sometimes credited William Davis or Will Davies ) is an English screenwriter and producer. He has written and co-written a number of films including Twins (1988), The Real McCoy (1993),[ 1] the Johnny English franchise (2003-2018), Alien Autopsy (2006), Flushed Away (2006), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), and Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022).[ 2]
The British-born Davies is a graduate of Mercersburg Academy and Cambridge University. He is the brother of television producer Michael Davies and the opera singer Rebecca de Pont Davies .
Year
Title
Writer
Producer
Notes
1987
Student Exchange
Yes
No
TV movie
1994
Bermuda Grace
Yes
Yes
TV movie
1998
Ghost Cop
Yes
No
1 episode
2001
Red Cap
No
Yes
TV movie
2004
Red Cap
No
Yes
2 episodes
2022
Man vs. Bee
Yes
Yes
9-episode series
Awards for William Davies
Brenda Chapman (1994)
Andrew Stanton , Joss Whedon , Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow (1996)
Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders , Philip LaZebnik , Raymond Singer and Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (1998)
Brad Bird and Tim McCanlies (1999)
John Lasseter , Pete Docter , Ash Brannon , Andrew Stanton , Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (2000)
Ted Elliott , Terry Rossio , Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman (2001)
Hayao Miyazaki (2002)
Andrew Stanton , Bob Peterson and David Reynolds (2003)
Brad Bird (2004)
Steve Box , Nick Park and Mark Burton (2005)
Dick Clement , Ian La Frenais , Christopher Lloyd , Joe Keenan and William Davies (2006)
Brad Bird (2007)
Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger (2008)
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (2009)
Chris Sanders , Will Davies and Dean DeBlois (2010)
James Ward Byrkit, John Logan and Gore Verbinski (2011)
Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee (2012)
Hayao Miyazaki (2013)
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014)
Pete Docter , Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (2015)
Jared Bush and Phil Johnston (2016)
Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich (2017)
Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman (2018)
Jérémy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant (2019)
Pete Docter , Mike Jones and Kemp Powers (2020)
Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe (2021)
Dean Fleischer Camp , Jenny Slate , Nick Paley and Elisabeth Holm (2022)
Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor (2023)
1980s 1990s
Daniel Waters , James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Steven E. de Souza , Daniel Waters , Bruce Willis , and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991)
Blake Snyder , William Osborne , and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993)
Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein , Steven E. de Souza , and various others – The Flintstones (1994)
Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995)
Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997)
Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
Jim Thomas , John Thomas , S. S. Wilson , Brent Maddock , Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
2000s 2010s
M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
Steve Koren , Adam Sandler , and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt , Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn , Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk , Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin , Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri , Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko , Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Tony Leondis , Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
2020s