1. Jeremy Dyson was born on 14 June 1966 and is a British author, musician and screenwriter who, along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, is one of the League of Gentlemen.
13 Facts About Jeremy Dyson
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Jeremy Dyson created and co-wrote the West End show Ghost Stories and its film adaptation.
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Jeremy Dyson has one older brother, Andrew Dyson, and a younger sister, Jayne Dyson.
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Jeremy Dyson studied Philosophy at the University of Leeds and later completed an MA in screenwriting at the Northern Film School.
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Jeremy Dyson lived in Highbury, London, but now lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
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Jeremy Dyson is Jewish, raised in a kosher home; though no longer practising, it often appears in his work.
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Jeremy Dyson is the co-creator of the West End play Ghost Stories, and a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen, the latter along with fellow performers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, all of whom he met while they were studying at Bretton Hall drama school.
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Jeremy Dyson co-created the BAFTA-nominated television series Funland, which aired on BBC Three, and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC's 2008 series Fairy Tales.
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Jeremy Dyson was the script editor of BBC Two sitcom Grandma's House, BBC Three's Dead Boss and Walking and Talking for Sky Atlantic.
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Jeremy Dyson has an interest in the supernatural fiction of English writer Robert Aickman and has adapted Aickman's work in a number of media.
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Jeremy Dyson was script editor on the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans written by James Corden, Mathew Baynton and Tom Basden.
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Jeremy Dyson has written and acted as script supervisor for the BBC sketch comedy series Tracey Ullman's Show and Tracey Breaks the News starring Tracey Ullman.
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Alongside his writing work, Jeremy Dyson plays keyboards in a pop band called Rudolf Rocker, and has previously been a member of Leeds band, Flowers for Agatha in the 1980s.