Daniel Graham

Daniel Graham
Director and Screenwriter
Artist Biography

After a long career in film distribution, Daniel Graham launched into film production with
his debut feature as writer/director, the indie art-house sleeper hit Opus Zero (Mexico,
2017) starring Oscar nominated actor Willem Dafoe. Following this he created the darkly
black comedy that predicted Covid-19, The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica
(Malta, 2021) starring British acting legend Timothy Spall.

Then in 2021 Daniel took on his most ambitious film to date, the 19th century boxing epic
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher starring Oscar winning superstar Russell Crowe, Ray
Winstone and Matt Hookings. A huge success on Amazon Prime USA, Prizefighter: The
Life of Jem Belcher expanded Daniel’s vision to the hard hitting period film that was shot
across three countries with a truly stellar cast.

The Guardian newspaper has compared Daniel’s vision as a Director to Peter Greenaway
and Theo Angelopoulos whilst evoking the absurdist comedy of Monty Python, yet
remains first and foremost an unforgettable audience experience.

Daniel is currently developing two fictionalised biopics – one about the controversial 19th
century composer Richard Wagner and the other a black comedy about the beloved actor
David Niven, in addition to a number of script stage projects.