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Douglas McFerran

Douglas McFerran has worked as an actor, write, director and managing executive of both a film company and the Stafford-upon-Avon International Film Festival.

He spent three years at the Royal National Theatre in London before appearing in Sir Peter Hall’s production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming. He also appeared in the West End in Pinter’s No Man’s Land and in Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men. He has worked in numerous television productions including Lynda La Plante’s She’s Out, A Touch of Frost, Minder, The Bill, Sam Saturday, Striker, Birds of a Feather, Ninety Nine to One, Bliss, London’s Burning, Emmerdale, Margaret, Criminal justice, Peep Show, and Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language.

His film work includes, Sliding Doors, Johny English, MGM’s Anti-Trust and Charlie the story of the East End’s Notorious Charlie Richardson.

As a writer his work as a script doctor includes, Anti-Trust and Sliding Doors and, as a co-writer, the Pierce Brosnan comedy, Laws of Attraction. In Hollywood he wrote an adaptation of David Copperfield at Paramount Pictures for Miramax and the Cort-Madden Company, and a horror script Lake of Fire for Industry Entertainment.

In 2004 he wrote and directed the feature film, Photo-Finish, starring Aidan Gillen and James Purefoy which won Best Feature Film awards at the Berkeley Film Festival in California and the Ohio State Independent Film Festival in Cleveland as well as being accepted into competition in Marco Island, Florida, Rhode Island, Great Lakes, Pennsylvania and Temecula California.

In August 2005 his stage farce Screwball premiered at the New York Fringe Theatre Festival at the MacDougal Theatre in Greenwich Village.

Also in 2005 he toured twenty towns and cities in Ireland as an actor in the Gallowglass theatre company production of Tom Murphy’s, The Sanctuary Lamp.

From 1996 to 200 Douglas McFerran, with Peter Howitt, was director of the production company, Power Pictures, finance by Miramax Films and Intermedia Film Equities.

In 2007 he formed Comedy Ink productions with Ivan Kaye. Brilliant is thier first venture together. Other ideas are currently in development.

Most recently he appeared at the Players Theatre in London’s West End in his latest comedy, Bring on the Dancing Poodles.