Actor

Phil Ford

Writing

Career Snapshot

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.1

Low visibility

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Movies: 3Series: 13Crew credits: 14

TMDB ID: 1214505

IMDb ID: nm0285828

Known for: Writing

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1983 - 2023

Years active: 41

Average TMDB rating: 7.24

Wikidata: Q4491824

Other jobs

Writer (13)Executive Producer (1)

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Biography

Phil Ford is a British television writer and producer. He is best known for his work on Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet and Doctor Who. He was head writer and co-producer of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures (2008–11), co-writer of "The Waters of Mars" (2009) and “Into the Dalek” (2014) with Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat, respectively, and wrote the majority of the 2010s video game series Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. In 2023, his novelisation of The Waters of Mars was released as part of the revived Target Books series. In 2012, with Davies, he created Wizards vs Aliens, which ran for three series and gave him an executive producer credit. He won a Hugo Award, a Writers' Guild Award and was four-times BAFTA nominated.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Phil Ford.