Dudi Appleton
{{Short description|Northern Irish journalist}}
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David Jeremy Nicholas Appleton (born 1969) is a Northern Irish journalist, screenwriter and film director.
Early life
Appleton attended Rockport School in Holywood, County Down, and then Campbell College in Belfast before attending Jesus College, Oxford, where he read English.{{citation needed|date=February 2011}}
Dudi, as he has been known since a child, attended Central Acting School in London. Though he acted in plays and film, he was more attracted to writing, where he became a travel journalist for The Standard, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph broadsheets.{{cite web |title=Telegraph {{!}} Travel {{!}} Hawaii: How I learnt to ride the wave |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=%2Ftravel%2F2003%2F11%2F25%2Fetfsurf23.xml |access-date=20 August 2021 |date=22 December 2003| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031222095306/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=%2Ftravel%2F2003%2F11%2F25%2Fetfsurf23.xml | archive-date=22 December 2003 }}{{cite web |author=Dudi Appleton |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/promotions/article-917623-jumbos-and-trunk-roads.do |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421120750/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/promotions/article-917623-jumbos-and-trunk-roads.do |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-04-21 |title=Jumbos and trunk roads - Promotions - London Evening Standard |publisher=Thisislondon.co.uk |date=2001-03-02 |accessdate=2014-01-29 }}
Career
Working with his Oxford companion Jim Keeble, who had moved into writing books, they began writing film scripts. The first which was filmed was A Sort Of Homecoming (1994) which was a short based and filmed in Strangford Lough in County Down. As they continued to write scripts, Appleton wished to direct a full-length feature. In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.[http://www.hbo.com/comedy/cmp/best_05.html HBO] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923121957/http://www.hbo.com/comedy/cmp/best_05.html |date=September 23, 2006 }}
He has written scripts for Disney, Miramax, Warner Brothers and Scott Free and has worked with directors such as Oliver Stone and Sir Ridley Scott developing adaptations and screenplays.{{cite web|url=http://www.casarotto.co.uk/assets/x/50673.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807145321/http://www.casarotto.co.uk/assets/x/50673.pdf |archivedate=2011-08-07 }} In television, Appleton wrote for series such as Inspector George Gently, Silent Witness and co-created and wrote the crime drama Wild Bill for ITV.{{cite web |title=ITV commissions crime drama, Wild Bill, starring and executive produced by internationally renowned actor Rob Lowe|url=https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-releases/itv-commissions-crime-drama-wild-bill-starring-and-executive-produced-internationally |website=ITV |accessdate=3 July 2019 |date=12 October 2018}} Appleton has also directed television, for series such as Signora Volpe.
Appleton and Keeble adapted Robert van Gulik’s ‘Judge Dee’ historical mystery novels for a new Chinese-British television series. In 2024, Youku released the series, Judge Dee's Mystery, which also streamed on Netflix.
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External links
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Category:Male television writers from Northern Ireland
Category:Male screenwriters from Northern Ireland
Category:Journalists from Belfast
Category:Film directors from Belfast
Category:People educated at Campbell College