Glenn Wilhide

Who is Glenn Wilhide?

Glenn Wilhide is a British television screenwriter and producer.

Wilhide was born in Maryland USA to American parents. His first production was The Road Home, a feature film which he produced in Poland for Channel 4 as a young man in his early twenties. Time Out Review

As co-owner of ZED Ltd in the early 1980s, he and his partner Sophie Belhetchet produced dramas including The Camomile Lawn, The Manageress and The Peacock Spring starring a young Naveen Andrews better known as Sayid from Lost. After disbanding ZED Ltd to go their separate ways in 1996, Glenn Wilhide produced the first series of the award-winning comedy The Royle Family starring Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, as well as Mrs Merton and Malcolm with the same team, both for Granada TV for the BBC.

Reviews for the The Royle Family, originally screened on BBC2 in a late night slot with not much fanfare, immediately recognised the ground breaking nature of the comedy and the quality of the production. So perfect did the Guardian reviewer consider the first series to be, that he imagined the distinguished playwright Samuel Beckett endorsing it above all subsequent series of the show.

The drama Metropolis, about a group of friends recently graduated from university finding their feet in the big city, marked Wilhide's directorial debut and was written by Peter Morgan.