Frank Deasy
| Frank Deasy | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 May 1959 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 17 September 2009 (aged 50) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Spouse | Marie |
Frank Deasy (19 May 1959 – 17 September 2009) was an Irish screenwriter. He won an Emmy Award for the television series Prime Suspect and was also nominated for his works, Looking After Jo Jo and The Grass Arena. His other works included the BBC/HBO mini-series, The Passion.
Preceding his death from liver cancer on 17 September 2009, Deasy spoke in public about his condition. An appearance on RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline led to a record increase in organ donor card requests in Ireland.
Deasy was a native of Artane, Dublin. He initially worked as a child carer with Ireland's Eastern Health Board. He relocated to Glasgow, Scotland, where he died in 2009, having "liked it so much he never came home".
His career credits include Prime Suspect and The Passion. James Walton of The Daily Telegraph described The Passion as "exactly the kind of intelligent and engaging drama you'd expect from a series written by Frank Deasy". For RTÉ he wrote Father & Son, which achieved 26% and 27% audience shares for its first two episodes broadcast on RTÉ One in 2009 and was consistently within Ireland's Top Ten television programmes throughout its run.Father & Son features a character, Barrington Smith, who suffers from kidney malfunction and must escape from prison to find a cure. In spite of this success, John Spain in the Irish Independent commented that Deasy was still not very well known in Ireland at this time. He also wrote films and had a co-credit on Miramax's Prozac Nation, featuring Christina Ricci, Jessica Lange and Lou Reed. Deasy was working on Gaza, a BBC Films drama due to begin filming in October 2009, at the time of his death. One year before his death, Gaza featured on the "Brit List", which features the most deserving unproduced screenplays in Ireland and the United Kingdom. He was also supposed to be writing an eight-part BBC drama series about the House of Medici. He was also due to follow a family over a century for RTÉ.
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