Born in London, Jeffrey Caine was educated at the Universities of Sussex and Leeds. He taught English in schools and colleges for three years before becoming a professional writer. After writing mainly for television between 1986 and 1992, during which period his own series THE CHIEF was successfully produced, Jeffrey has concentrated in recent years on screenplays.
A widower since 1995, he has two daughters and two grand-daughters.
GALILEO - Proposed serial based on the story of one of the most original and brave thinkers in history for Green Room entertainment / BBC.
H.G.WELLS SHORT STORIES - 3 x 1 hour teleplays for Hallmark Entertainment. The Late Mr Elversham/The New Faust, Aepyornis Island and The Door in the Wall.
BODYGUARDS - Original series for Zenith/Carlton.
THE CHIEF - Original award-nominated series for Anglia TV about the politics of policing today. The series protagonist is the newly appointed Chief Constable of a large provincial force.
PRODUCED FILMS
THE CONSTANT GARDENER - (2005) Feature adaptation of John Le Carré novel. Produced by Simon Channing-Williams and directed by Fernando Meirelles. Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz star. Released in the US August 2005, in the UK 11 November 2005. Screenplay nominated for:
Screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2005. Nominated for seven British Independent Film Awards 2005.
INSIDE I’M DANCING - (2004) (U.S. Title: RORY O'SHEA WAS HERE) Feature drama about the friendship between two disabled young men. Directed by Damien O’Donnell and produced by James Flynn for Octagon Films and Working Title. Released Autumn 2004.
Winner Audience Award, Edinburgh Film Festival2004
Winner Best Screenplay Award at Irish Film Awards 2004
Selected for Sundance January 2005.
GOLDENEYE - (1995) United Artists/MGM - starring Pierce Brosnan in his first outing as James Bond.
SCREENPLAYS IN DEVELOPMENT:
THE LADY - Commissioned by Ridley Scott/Fox to write a screenplay based on the life of Gertrude Bell, who following World War One, achieved fame as one of the chief architects of the modern state of Iraq
PETER PAN IN SCARLET - Commissioned to adapt a sequel to the J. M. Barrie classic by Geraldine McCaughrean; Headline Pictures Ltd.
THE TRANSLATOR - The Development Department LLC (Producer) and directed by Luis Mandoki, it is based on the book The Translator: a Tribesman Memoir of Darfur by Daoud Hari
SILVER GHOST - New feature in development with Anthony Haas and Richard Attenborough.
THE SONG OF NAMES - Feature adaptation of Norman Lebrecht's book for Nick Hirschkorn of Feel Films, director Vadim Perelman attached
CARBONEL - Animated feature based on Barbara Sleigh's book in development with Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures.
THE PERSIAN BRIDE - Adaptation of James Buchan's novel for New Line, Los Angeles.
OTHER SCREENPLAYS:
THE MAGIC BULLET - Adaptation of a novel by Harry Stein, for New Regency Productions.
HEROIC MEASURES - Feature screenplay re-write for Columbia Pictures.
BUDDY - A free adaptation with a contemporary American setting of Bulgakov's classic novella of transmutation. Romantic comedy.
VINTAGE MUSCATEL - Original screenplay for Zenith Productions; the story of a successful businessman, now on Skid Row, who finds a passage through despair to an unexpected triumph in a New York court.
SONJA - Feature film screenplay commissioned by Redbreast Films An adaptation of Dr Albert Haas' autobiographical wartime love story; an account of a husband/wife resistance team in occupied France, their arrest, imprisonment in concentration camps, and eventual reunion.
REQUESTS AND REQUIRES - Original thriller screenplay about a man who attempts to rescue his son from kidnappers - British and African setting
THE HOMING - Adaptation of his own novel (see below) for Astoria Productions.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - A modern adaptation of Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE for Irwin Winkler and Columbia Pictures.
CODETALKERS - Original screenplay for Astoria Productions. A fictional account, based on true events, of the lives of three Navajo Indians before, during and after World War II.
NOVELS:
THE COLD ROOM - W H Allen / Alfred A Knopf, 1976
An adolescent girl accompanies her father to East Berlin, 1972. They stay at a hotel, formerly an apartment house, where she enters, with disturbing consequences, the mind of another girl; one who lived there thirty years earlier.(Filmed in 1983 for HBO with George Segal: Producer, Mark Forstater, Director, James Dearden.)
HEATHCLIFF - W H Allen / Alfred A Knopf, 1977
The 'missing' years of Emily Bronte's romantic hero: an account of his adventures in the criminal underworld of eighteenth century London and of his education there by a lady of fashion. Re-issued in paperback by Grafton Books, August 1993
THE HOMING - (co-author) Putnam / Michael Joseph 1980 / Mandarin George Kenner, a New Yorker, is troubled by the apparent character change in his daughter since her marriage and move to a small town upstate. Paying her a long-overdue visit, he discovers that the entire town is an experimental zone, one of many across the nation; part of a gigantic conspiracy to control, eventually, the minds and memories of America. Most disquieting of all is Kenner's discovery that this isn't the first time he's made the discovery...Re-issued by Mandarin Books, 1992
OTHER:
PROJECT BABY DOLL - Lux HairCare range (Project); thriller screenplay starring Catherine Zeta-Jones for promotional purposes; Unilever Japan K.K.& Unilever Group of Greater China, (concepting and filmscript)