William Boyd

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1952-03-07 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]

William Boyd

Biography

William Andrew Murray Boyd CBE FRSL (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast, (present-day Ghana), to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana). In the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd's father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd spent his early life in Ghana an...

Production

2005

Man to Man

as Author

1992

Chaplin

as Screenplay

1990

1999

The Trench

as Director

1985

Dutch Girls

as Writer

2001

Sword of Honour

as Screenplay

1991

Mister Johnson

as Screenplay

1987

Scoop

as Screenplay

1999

The Trench

as Writer

1994

A Good Man in Africa

as Co-Producer

1988

Stars & Bars

as Screenplay

1988

Stars & Bars

as Novel

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