Hugo Edgar Maxwell Blick (born 1965), sometimes credited as Hugo E. Blick, is an English writer, producer, director and occasional actor. He has his own production company, called Eight Rooks.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Producer/Director/Writer
  • 3.2 Actor
  • 3.3 Self
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Early life

Blick studied in Cardiff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Career

He has acted in several films, appearing as a Young Jack Napier, the character who would ultimately become The Joker in Tim Burton's Batman. He delivers the famous line "Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moon light?" after having killed the young Bruce Wayne's parents.

He also wrote the TV series The Last Word Monologues, a series of three shorts featuring Sheila Han*, Rhys Ifans and Bob Hoskins. He has also had producer credits on several works including Roger & Val Have Just Got In starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina.

As a writer he co-created, produced and directed the TV comedies Marion and Geoff with Rob Brydon, Operation Good Guys in which he also appeared as 'Smiler' McCarthy and wrote and created the noir thriller The Shadow Line (2011) for the BBC, which starred Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston.

In 2014, Blick wrote and directed the BBC drama series The Honourable Woman, which won a Peabody Award and Golden Globe Award. In 2017, it was announced that Blick would write and direct Black Earth Rising for BBC Two and Netflix. In 2021, Blick was announced as filming The English (TV series), a western with Emily Blunt for the BBC.

Filmography

Producer/Director/Writer

• 1997: Operation Good Guys
• 2000: Marion and Geoff
• 2001: A Small Summer Party
• 2002: Up in Town
• 2005: Sensitive Skin
• 2008: The Last Word Monologues
• 2010: Roger & Val Have Just Got In (Executive Producer)
• 2011: The Shadow Line
• 2014: The Honourable Woman
• 2014: Sensitive Skin
• 2018: Black Earth Rising

Actor

• 1989: Batman – Young Jack Napier
• 1989: Blackadder Goes Forth – Lieutenant von Gerhardt
• 1989: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court – Mordred
• 1990: Jeeves and Wooster – Claude Wooster
• 1992: Christopher Columbus: The Discovery – De Torres
• 1994: Flush – Executive
• 1996: The Wind in the Willows – Justin
• 1997: Operation Good Guys – Narrator / 'Smiler' McCarthy’ / Hugo Crippin
• 2005: Sensitive Skin – G.I. Johnson
• 2018: Black Earth Rising – Blake Gaines

Self

• 2015: 67th Primetime Emmy Awards – Self–Nominee

References

External links

• Hugo Blick at IMDb