Fay Weldon

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Fay Weldon

Writing September 22, 1931

Birmingham, England, UK

Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was a British author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she publis…

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She-Devil

She-Devil

6.0 1989 Movie
Omnibus

Omnibus

7.2 1967 TV Show
The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play

5.2 1964 TV Show
ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse

7.0 1967 TV Show
Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs

7.8 1971 TV Show
Thirty-Minute Theatre

Thirty-Minute Theatre

4.3 1965 TV Show
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

7.0 1980 TV Show
ITV Play of the Week

ITV Play of the Week

4.0 1955 TV Show
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

7.2 1986 TV Show
Rooms

Rooms

7.0 1974 TV Show
Shadows

Shadows

6.8 1975 TV Show
Half Hour Story

Half Hour Story

7.5 1967 TV Show

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Fay Weldon (born Franklin Birkinshaw; 22 September 1931 – 4 January 2023) was a British author, essayist and playwright. Over the course of her 55-year writing career, she published 31 novels, including Puffball (1980), The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), Wicked Women (1995) and The Bulgari Connection (2000), but was most well-known as the writer of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) which was televised by the BBC in 1986.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Mrs. Weekley's Lover

    Movie Writer

  2. 2010
    In Confidence

    TV show

  3. 2007
    Puffball

    Movie Novel

  4. 2007
    The Alan Titchmarsh Show

    TV show Self

  5. 1998
    The Garden Party

    TV show

  6. 1998
    Big Women

    TV show Writer

  7. 1994
    Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife

    Movie Self - Interviewee

  8. 1992
    Growing Rich

    TV show Writer

  9. 1992
    The Cloning of Joanna May

    TV show Novel

  10. 1991
    Pebble Mill

    TV show Self

  11. 1989
    She-Devil

    Movie Novel

  12. 1987
    Heart of the Country

    TV show Writer

  13. 1986
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

    TV show Novel

  14. 1986
    A Dangerous Kind of Love

    Movie Writer

  15. 1986
    Ladies in Charge

    TV show Writer

  16. 1985
    Time for Murder

    TV show Writer

More credits
  1. 1980
    Life for Christine

    Movie Writer

  2. 1980
    Pride and Prejudice

    TV show Writer

  3. 1978
    Send in the Girls

    TV show Writer

  4. 1977
    Age of Hypocrisy

    Movie Writer

  5. 1977
    Jubilee 1977

    TV show Writer

  6. 1977
    The Velvet Glove

    TV show Writer

  7. 1975
    Shadows

    TV show Writer

  8. 1975
    Against the Crowd

    TV show Writer

  9. 1975
    Ten from the Twenties

    TV show Writer

  10. 1975
    Private Affairs

    TV show Writer

  11. 1975
    Abschiedsparty

    Movie Writer

  12. 1974
    Rooms

    TV show Writer

  13. 1973
    Marked Personal

    TV show Writer

  14. 1973
    Then and Now

    TV show Writer

  15. 1973
    Die Geschichte einer dicken Frau

    Movie Writer

  16. 1973
    Armchair 30

    TV show Writer

  17. 1973
    Leap in the Dark

    TV show Writer

  18. 1972
    A Splinter of Ice

    Movie Writer

  19. 1971
    Suspicion

    TV show Writer

  20. 1971
    Upstairs, Downstairs

    TV show Writer

  21. 1971
    Owen, M.D.

    TV show Writer

  22. 1971
    Trial

    TV show Writer

  23. 1971
    Office Party

    Movie Writer

  24. 1970
    Poor Mother

    Movie Writer