Cris Cole

Cris Cole is a British writer and producer, born in Wallingford, England. He grew up in London and attended Elliott Comprehensive School in Roehampton, London. After leaving school he worked as a professional guitarist for the next 15 years, playing in bands including Jimmy The Hoover, The Directions and The Hollywood Killers.

Cole then turned to writing and wrote a pilot for Tiger Aspect / BBC, called Embassy, starring Robert Daws. Cole has multiple other TV credits, including episodes of Night and Day, Twisted Tales and The Bill, feature film credits, including Lovebite (Ecosse Films, 2012) and Pelican Blood (Ecosse Films, 2010), as well as the TV movie The Good Times Are Killing Me (Shaftersbury Films, 2009).

Cole is best known as the creator of the award winning and the BAFTA nominated British TV series Mad Dogs, starring Marc Warren, Max Beesley, John Simm and Phil Glenister. He was the sole writer of all 14 episodes for the four UK seasons for Sky TV, produced by Left Bank Pictures. Cole was the executive producer and showrunner on the Mad Dogs US TV series made by Amazon Studios / Sony Pictures Television. The show was streamed on Amazon in the US, Germany and the UK. Sony sold Mad Dogs to 140 other territories. The series starred Ben Chaplin, Michael Imperioli, Romany Malco, Steve Zahn and Billy Zane. Producers of Amazon’s adaptation of Mad Dogs toyed with the idea of having the killer wear a Donald Trump mask. In the original British series, the killer wears a Tony Blair mask. “We thought about who it could be and went through various machinations and various ideas we realized would get us into terrible trouble,” original Brit series creator Cris Cole told TV critics this morning at TCA.

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