David Peter Renwick is an English author, television writer, actor, director and executive producer, best known for creation of the sitcom One Foot in the Grave and the mystery series Jonathan Creek.
19 Facts About David Renwick
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David Renwick was awarded the Writers Guild Ronnie Barker Award at the 2008 British Comedy Awards.
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The son and only child of James George Renwick was born on 1924 and and Winifred May Renwick who were married in 1948, David Renwick was born and brought up in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
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David Renwick wrote for Les Dawson, Bernie Winters as well as Little and Large at the end of the 1970s.
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David Renwick wrote for the sketch show Alexei Sayle's Stuff and Spike Milligan's There's a Lot of It About.
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David Renwick began writing solo at the end of the 1980s when he created the sitcom One Foot in the Grave, starring Richard Wilson, which was highly successful.
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The series won a BAFTA award for best comedy programme in 1992, with David Renwick receiving The Writers' Guild Award for Best Comedy Writer in that same year.
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Several other minor roles went to actors with whom David Renwick worked with on One Foot in the Grave.
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In 1997, David Renwick devised the comedy-drama and mystery series, Jonathan Creek, based around the crime-solving abilities of the eponymous designer of magic tricks, played by comedian Alan Davies.
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In 1999 David Renwick received BAFTA's Dennis Potter Award, established to recognise outstanding writing for television.
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In 2008, David Renwick directed for the first time as he brought back the series Jonathan Creek after a five year hiatus.
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David Renwick was awarded the Writers Guild Ronnie Barker Award at the British Comedy Awards 2008.
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In 2010 David Renwick directed a further episode of his series Jonathan Creek, with the 94-minute long instalment The Judas Tree being broadcast on Easter Sunday.
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David Renwick wrote a further five episodes of Jonathan Creek, the last of which to date was broadcast in December 2016.
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The slow rate of production is partly due to David Renwick's writing of the episodes, which he describes as being a painstaking process in which the intricacies of the plots take several months to work out.
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In 2016 David Renwick wrote the four-part radio miniseries Desolation Jests.
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David Renwick is an author, having written the novels One Foot in the Grave and One Foot in the Grave and Counting - both featuring original plots, as well as ones reworked from the television series.
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David Renwick has often been heavily involved in the casting of actors for his productions and has chosen to work with numerous actors across several of his productions even for the casting of smaller roles.
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Doreen Mantle appeared in eighteen episodes of One Foot in the Grave, one episode of Love Soup, as well as one episode of Jonathan Creek, whilst David Renwick himself made occasional, brief appearances in these three productions.