Roy Minton

Writing

Roy Minton

Born 1933-08-28 · Nottingham, England, UK

Roy Minton (28 August 1933 – 17 August 2024) was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke. He is notable for having written over 30 one-off scripts for London Weekend Television, Rediffusion, BBC, ATV, Granada, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television, including Sling Your Hook, Horace, Funny Farm, Scum, Goodnight Albert, and The Hunting of Lionel Crane.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Scum poster
7.1

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Scum

1979

Scum poster
7.3

Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.

Scum

1977

Horace poster
5.7

In Yorkshire, intellectually disabled diabetic Horace works in the back of a joke shop. He befriends loner schoolboy Gordon Blackett, who retreats from his loveless home into an imaginary world.

Horace

1972

Scrubbers poster
5.2

Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.

Scrubbers

1982

Fast Hands poster
5.0

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however, aren't particularly interested – until a large car and what appears to be a handsome contract arrive at the door.

Fast Hands

1976

No artwork available
7.0

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.

Stand by Your Screen

1968

Sling Your Hook poster
8.0

A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.

Sling Your Hook

1969

The Gentleman Caller poster
5.5

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.

The Gentleman Caller

1967

The Hunting of Lionel Crane poster
8.0

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

1970

Funny Farm poster
6.2

Alan Wellbeck is a nurse in a mental hospital. His day-to-day struggles with personal feelings and troubled patients provide humour and pathos against the backdrop of a public institution.

Funny Farm

1975

No artwork available
5.0

Albert lives with his Grandma, who he thinks is cramping his style. However an incident reveals to him that he is as much dependent on her as she is of him.

Goodnight Albert

1968