Daniel Boyle is a Scottish screenwriter best known for devising the television series Hamish Macbeth and writing twelve episodes of the show.
Boyle left school at fifteen and for the next eleven years worked as a seaman. He left the sea and became a postman for four years before going to university as a mature student. After university his main occupation was as a college lecturer. He became a full-time writer in 1990, writing extensively for television, had four original films produced, and contributed episodes to series Inspector Morse, Rebus, Hamish Macbeth, Taggart and Lewis.
Boyle is married and has three children and four grandchildren.
Screenplays Screenplays written by Daniel Boyle Date first broadcast Title Director Cast SynopsisAwards StationSeries Playing for Real: Episode 5 Jim Hill Patricia Kerrigan, Alec Heggie, Jake D'Arcy, Iain Andrew, David Meldrum, Lawrie McNicol, Sandy Welch, Anne Kristen, Juliet Cadzow, Grace Glover, Libby McArthur, Barbara Rafferty, Johnny Irving, Nancy Mitchell, Paul Young, Ian Sexon, Tony Caunter, Frederick Warder, Robert Lang, Roger Lloyd Pack, Richard Howard, Robert Howie, Mike Grady, Jo McStay, Gavin Brown, Martin Heller and Rita Adam The fate of the clubhouse is to be decided. Whose side is Suzy Gilbert-Walker on? Real Falkirk are drawn against the Chelsea Challengers, a team of actors led by the existentialist Jean-Paul Witherspoon, a man who doesn't conform to any tactical pattern. Mo goes to confession. BBC1 Leaving Sandy Johnson Kenneth McFadyen, Gary Greer, Alan Summers, Alex Norton, Paul Young, Gerry Slevin, Hugh Ross, Sean Scanlan, Paul Hannaway, Marcus Railton, Maggie Bell, Gerard Kelly, Caroline Paterson, Lorraine Brett, Adrian May, Andrew Goodfellow, Tony MacBeath, Alex McCrindle, Johnny Irving, Hugh Martin, Alastair Cording, Romilly Squire, Monica Brady, Craig Curran, Anthony McHale, Quentin Sommerville, James Maitland, Alan Kirk, Wyli McDonald and John Gordon Greenock, 1960: Nick, Gus and Jada are in their last weeks at school, aware that the decisions they make now will be crucial to their future. BBC2 Screen Two A View of Harry Clark Alister Reid Griff Rhys Jones, Elaine Paige, Laura Claire Duerden, Benjie Lawrence, Charlotte Coleman, Adrian Murphy, Ian Hart, Jake D'Arcy, Mary Ann Reid, Louis Emerick, James Culshaw, Al T Kossy, Mitzi Meuller, Sandra Gough, Iain McColl, Ian Sexon, Grace Kirby and Jill Balcon Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him? BBC1 The Play on One Inspector Morse: Second Time Around Adrian Shergold John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Kenneth Colley, Pat Heywood, Ann Bell, Oliver Ford Davies, James Grout, Christopher Eccleston, Adie Allen, Sam Kelly, Jenny Laird, Maurice Bush, Mark Draper, Simon Adams, Peter Warrington, Liz Kettle, David Bauckham, Claude le Sache, Pamela Stirling, Shahnaz Pakravan, Robert Goodale, Helena McCarthy, Graeme du Fresne, Matthew Green, Neale McGrath, Peter Gordon, Simon Coady and Russell Kilmister A highly thought-of and distinguished senior officer, Charlie Hillian, has just retired and is writing a book about his biggest cases. During the night after he received an OBE, Hillian is killed in a struggle in his rural Oxfordshire home. The notes for one chapter of his forthcoming book are missing, the only case in the book which Hillian and his then DS, Patrick Dawson, never solved. That case involved the murder of an eight-year-old girl, Mary Lapsley, and it appears that someone wants that chapter to be unpublished. Zenith Productions for Central ITV Inspector Morse: Dead on Time John Madden John Thaw and Kevin Whately When Henry Fallon, an Oxford don, commits suicide, Morse discovers he has a painful link with the man's widow, Susan. Zenith Productions for Central ITV Inspector Morse: Happy Families Adrian Shergold John Thaw and Kevin Whately Morse becomes the victim of a hate campaign by the press as he investigates the death of a cruel, boorish industrialist. Zenith Productions for Central ITV Inspector Morse: Deadly Slumber Stuart Orme John Thaw, Kevin Whately and Jason Durr Matthew Brewster, owner of a private clinic, is found dead in his garage with the car engine running. Zenith Productions for Central ITV Inspector Morse: The Day of the Devil Stephen Whittaker John Thaw, Kevin Whately and Keith Allen John Peter Barrie, a convicted rapist and devil worshipper, escapes from a prison infirmary by eluding the authorities with several disguises. Zenith Productions for Central ITV Meat John Madden Jonny Lee Miller, Sarah-Jane Potts, Peter Wight, John Simm, Laurence Kavanagh, Sarah Carpenter, Trevor Peacock, Robert Hamilton, Bill Cashmore, Louise Heaney, Graham Fletecher-Cook and Dennis Blanch On his release from a young offenders' institution, Charlie Dyce's single-mindedness makes him both friends and enemies when he eventually finds work in a seedy London cafe. There he meets and falls for a teenage prostitute, Myra, whose love transforms his life and gives him back a sense of identity. But when she becomes pregnant with Charlie's baby, her jealous pimp Frank exacts his revenge, pushing Charlie's powers of endurance to the limit. BBC1