Dudi Appleton

David Jeremy Nicholas Appleton (born 1969) is a journalist and film director.

Appleton attended Rockport School in Holywood, County Down, and then Campbell College in Belfast before attending Jesus College, Oxford, where he read English.

Dudi, as he has been known since a child, attended Central Acting School in London. Though he acted in plays and film, he was more attracted to writing, where he became a travel journalist for The Standard, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph broadsheets.[1][2]

Working with his Oxford companion JimKeeble, who had moved into writing books, they began writing film scripts. The first which was filmed was A Sort Of Homecoming (1994) which was a short based and filmed in Strangford Lough in County Down.[1] As they continued to write scripts, Appleton wished to direct a full-length feature. In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.[3]

He has since been writing scripts for Disney, Miramax, Warner Brothers and Scott Free and has worked with directors such as Oliver Stone and Sir Ridley Scott developing adaptations and screenplays.[4]

References
  1. "Telegraph | Travel | Hawaii: How I learnt to ride the wave". 22 December 2003. Archived from the original on 22 December 2003. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  2. Dudi Appleton (2 March 2001). "Jumbos and trunk roads - Promotions - London Evening Standard". Thisislondon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  3. HBO Archived September 23, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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