Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theatre writer, director, and producer and former teacher, best known for his work on Prime Suspect II and The Fall.
15 Facts About Allan Cubitt
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In 1988, Cubitt got his start as a playwright where his play, Winter Darkness, won a Thames Television bursary award that funded a year long writer-in-residence program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
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In 1992, Allan Cubitt wrote the script for The Countess Alice, a made-for-TV film starring Wendy Hiller and Zoe Wanamaker about the Berlin Wall coming down.
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In 1997, Allan Cubitt again worked with Helen Mirren on the mini-series, Painted Lady.
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Also in 1997, Allan Cubitt wrote the film St Ives, known as All for Love in the United Kingdom, a romance featuring Miranda Richardson that was based on an unfinished work by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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In 2000, Allan Cubitt wrote the script adaption for the Anna Karenina mini-series which starred Helen McCrory and was made for Channel 4.
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In 2002 and 2004, Allan Cubitt worked on two separate Sherlock Holmes projects, an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a film project that starred Richard Roxburgh, and an original story called The Case of the Silk Stockings, which starred Rupert Everett.
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In 2009, Allan Cubitt adapted the Simon Carr memoir, The Boys Are Back in Town, into the Australian film, The Boys Are Back, that starred Clive Owen and was directed by Scott Hicks.
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Allan Cubitt created the 2013 BBC Two television series, The Fall, from an initial pitch in 2009.
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Allan Cubitt wrote and produced the first series, then wrote, produced and directed series two and three.
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Northern Ireland and Belfast are both a setting, a character, and an integral part of the show, and Allan Cubitt wrote the majority of the show while based there, and cast the majority of the actors from there.
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Allan Cubitt wrote a number of songs for 1997's Painted Lady, starring Helen Mirren.
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Allan Cubitt wrote Katie's songs and played guitar as she sings.
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Allan Cubitt contributed two pieces of jazz music to the second series of The Fall, specifically episode 3, which was arranged and played by jazz pianist John Donaldson.
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Allan Cubitt wrote the music and played guitar and harmonica and sang "Spector's Blues," the song that played at the beginning of the second series of The Fall, episode 5 and again during Spector's dream in the car in episode 1 of season three.