Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959, from Rainhill, Liverpool, Merseyside) is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.
Cottrell Boyce was an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford and then completed a doctorate in English, also at Oxford University. Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he wrote criticism for the magazine Living Marxism. As a result there was su...
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Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 1959, from Rainhill, Liverpool, Merseyside) is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, best known for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.
Cottrell Boyce was an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford and then completed a doctorate in English, also at Oxford University. Prior to his career as a screenwriter, he wrote criticism for the magazine Living Marxism. As a result there was supposedly always a copy of the magazine on sale in the newsagent set of long-running British soap Coronation Street, while Cottrell Boyce was on the writing staff of that programme. After he met Winterbottom, the two collaborated on Forget About Me.
Winterbottom made five further films based on screenplays written by Cottrell Boyce, Butterfly Kiss, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Claim, 24 Hour Party People and Code 46. Their latest collaboration, A Cock and Bull Story, will be their last according to Cottrell Boyce, who asked that his contribution be...
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