Simon Nye was born on 29 July 1958 and is an English screenwriter, best known for television comedy.
12 Facts About Simon Nye
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Simon Nye wrote the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly, and all of the four ITV Pantos.
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Simon Nye co-wrote the 2006 film Flushed Away, created an adaptation of Richmal Crompton's Just William books in 2010, and wrote the drama series The Durrells.
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Simon Nye started his writing career as a translator, publishing translations of books on Richard Wagner, Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, before turning his hand to novel writing in 1989, with Men Behaving Badly.
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Simon Nye's TV writing career began in 1990 when he was persuaded by producer Beryl Vertue to adapt his first novel for the small screen.
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Simon Nye appeared in the show, briefly playing a prospective tenant in the episode "Gary and Tony".
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Simon Nye played one of Gary's friends, Clive, in the episode where Gary and Dorothy plan to get married.
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Simon Nye continues to write translations, focusing in recent years on dramatic works.
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Simon Nye wrote a pilot episode Felix and Murdo, which starred Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller.
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Simon Nye wrote the screenplay for the 2005 BBC of My Family And Other Animals based on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy.
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In 2016, Simon Nye wrote ITV's The Durrells, another adaptation of the trilogy, starring Keeley Hawes as Louisa Durrell.
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Simon Nye wrote a play, The Crown Jewels, about the theft of the Crown Jewels by Thomas Blood, which was performed at the Garrick Theatre in London in 2023.