Trevor Griffiths was born in an outer city area.
 He developed a series about parliamentary democracy, Bill Brand, which was first shown by ITV in the summer of 1976
== 1980s ==Griffiths' reputation at the time was such that Warren Beatty asked him to write a screenplay for a project about the US revolutionary John Reed, which eventually became the Oscar-winning film Reds (1981), but Griffiths departed from the project before the script was completed and estimates that he had written only 45% of the script for the finished film

