William Boyd

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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 Universit…

  • Writing
  • Born 7 March 1952 (age 74)
  • Accra, Gold Coast [now Ghana]
  • 26 credits

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Most-watched William Boyd films currently: Chaplin (1992), The Trench (1999), Stars & Bars (1988), Man to Man (2005), Mister Johnson (1991).

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Selected TV credits: Apostrophes (1975), Remembers… (2022), 10 Minute Tales (2009), Spy City (2020), Restless (2012).

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