David Cook

Writing

David Cook

Born 1940-09-21 · Preston, England, UK

David Cook was a British author, screenwriter and actor.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Second Best poster
6.8

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Second Best

1994

Closing Numbers poster
4.7

Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.

Closing Numbers

1993

Walter and June poster
6.7

Sequel to the TV film "Walter". In the United States, the two films have been released together on DVD as a package, called "Loving Walter".

Walter and June

1983

Missing Persons poster
4.0

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.

Missing Persons

1990

Walter poster
5.9

A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. A sequel to this film, titled "Walter and June", was released in 1983 and set 19 years later in time. In the United States, these two are sometimes bundled together under the title "Loving Walter".

Walter

1982

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NR

Four former inmates of a hospital for the mentally handicapped, move in next door to a middle aged couple in suburbia.

Why Here?

1977

Mary's Wife poster
NR

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

Mary's Wife

1980

"If Only..." poster
NR

Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.

"If Only..."

1980