Director

John Collee

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 30

TMDB ID: 55474

IMDb ID: nm0171722

Known for: Writing

Born: January 1, 1955

Age: 71

Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1981 - 2026

Years active: 46

Average TMDB rating: 6.58

Wikidata: Q6226674

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Writer (13)Screenplay (7)Additional Writing (2)Executive Producer (2)Script Editor (2)Novel (1)Script Consultant (1)Story (1)

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Biography

John Gerald Collee (born 1955) is a Scottish/Australian doctor, novelist and screenwriter whose films have been nominated for Oscars. Master and Commander was nominated for Best Film 2003, Happy Feetwon Best Animation in 2006, and Tanna (2015) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature in 2015. His many other films, written or co-written, include Creation (2009), Hotel Mumbai (2018) and Lee. His novels include Kingsley's Touch, A Paper Mask, and The Rig. His TV adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe received critical acclaim upon release on Netflix in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Collee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.