David
Caffrey

Director for film and television

David Caffrey is currently shooting the second season of The Alienist for TNT. He recently directed the whole of Bafta award winning Peaky Blinders series 4 and the 6 part drama Taken Down.

David directed 25 out of 28 episodes of the highest rated series in Irish television history, the award winning Love/Hate. He has most recently directed ITV's Tennison and prior to this comic book icon Stan Lee's Lucky Man, for Carnival Films.

David began his film and TV career working in various production roles on B-movies with Roger Corman, before his short films - Connivers, Bantams and Bolt - caught the eye of the industry.

This resulted in a leap into the feature film arena, with Divorcing Jack for Scala Productions, followed by the 18th century miniseries Aristocrats for BBC/WGBH. On the Nose, a comedy feature for Subotica/Universal, followed.

Since then he has alternated between commercials, features and television drama, the latter including Monarch of the Glen for BBC/Ecosse, Life Begins for ITV/Granada and Wild at Heart for ITV/Company Pictures.

David has directed projects which include Fallout for RTE/Frontier Films, The Commander for ITV/La Plante productions and Raw for RTE/Ecosse.

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Television

Director & Executive Producer 

The Alienist (Series 2)
Starring
  • Daniel Brühl
  • Dakota Fanning
  • Luke Evans
    •
    TNT, Netflix
    Love/Hate, Series 2
    6 x 60'
    Producer Suzanne McAuley
    Starring
  • Aiden Gillen
  • Robert Sheehan
    •
    Second series of the IFTA winning series about gangland life in Dublin.
    Octagon Films for RTE
    Love/Hate, Series 3
    6 x 60'
    Season three of award-winning Irish crime drama.
    Octagon Films for RTE
    Love/Hate, Series 4
    6 x 60'
    Starring
  • Aiden Gillen
  • Robert Sheehan

    • Fourth series of the award-winning Irish crime drama.

    Octagon Films for RTE

    Director 

    Taken Down
    Writer Stuart Carolan and Jo Spain

    6 episode crime drama series set in Dublin.

    FremantleMedia
    Post production
    Peaky Blinders (Series 4)
    Creator Steven Knight
    Starring
  • Cillian Murphy
    •
    Caryn Mandabach Productions
    Prime Suspect 1973
    Creator Lynda La Plante
    Producer Rhonda Smith
    Starring
  • Stefanie Martini
  • Sam Reid
    •

    Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.


    ITV Productions
    Lucky Man
    Creator Neil Biswas
    Producer Gareth Neame, Richard Fell, Beverley Booker
    Starring
  • James Nesbit
  • Eve Best
    •

    Thriller from an idea by comic book icon Stan Lee. DI Harry Clayton, a member of the London-based Murder Squad, is gifted the ability to control luck.

    Carnival for Sky1
    Line of Duty
    Producer Jed Mercurio
    Writer Jed Mercurio
    Starring
  • Vicky McClure
  • Adrian Dunbar
  • Lennie James
  • Martin Compston
    •
    A hard-hitting thriller series exploring the world of police corruption.
    BBC Drama Productions for BBC Two
    Love/Hate Series 1-5
    Reflet d'Or de la Meilleure Série TV at Cinema Tout Ecrans
    Producer Suzanne McAuley
    Starring
  • Aidan Gillen
  • Aoibhinn McGinnity
  • Ruth Negga
  • Robert Sheehan
    •
    Crime drama set in Dublin
    Octagon Films for RTE
    Siege
    Producer Luke Alkin
    Writer Kate Brooke
    Drama about a three-day hostage crisis at a school in South London
    Big Talk Productions for BBC1
    In development
    Raw: Multiple Episodes
    Producer James Flynn
    Writer Simon Ashdown
    Starring
  • Shelley Conn
  • Damon Gameau
  • Liam Garrigan
  • Keith McErlean
    •
    Drama based in a restaurant in Dublin
    Ocatgon Films for RTE
    Life Begins
    Producer Emma Benson
    Writer Mike Bullen
    Starring
  • Alexander Armstrong
  • Frank Finlay
  • Elliot Henderson-Boyle
  • Caroline Quentin
    •
    Comedy about a woman as she starts afresh after her husband leaves her
    Granada Television for ITV1
    The Commander: The Fraudster
    2 x 60'
    Producer Christopher Hall
    Writer Lynda La Plante
    Starring
  • Amanda Burton
  • Elisabeth Dermot Walsh
  • Ayesha Dharker
  • Penny Downie
    • Thriller about a conman who is due to be convicted for fraud and then is found floating dead in his pool
    La Plante Productions for ITV1
    Wild At Heart: Series 2
    2 x 60'
    Producer Bill Shephard
    Writer Jack Williams
    Starring
  • Amanda Holden
  • Lucy-Jo Hudson
  • Dawn Steele
  • Deon Stewardson
    •
    Family drama about a Bristol-based vet and his family who emigrate to a game park in South Africa
    Company Pictures for ITV1
    Fallout
    Producer Gerald Heffernan
    Writer Johnny Ferguson, Declan Jones
    Starring
  • Tara Breathnach
  • Mick Fitzgerald
  • Michael O'Connor
  • Michael O'Sullivan
    •
    Drama filmed in the style of a documentary charting the nuclear fallout from the Sellafield Nuclear Processing Plant in Cumbria
    Frontier Films for RTE
    Monarch of the Glen: Multiple Episodes
    6 x 60'
    Producer Michael Chaplin
    Writer Michael Chaplin
    Starring
  • Richard Briers
  • Julian Fellowes
  • Susan Hampshire
  • Alastair MacKenzie
    •
    Drama about a London man who is called back home to Scotland to discover he is the Laird of Glenbogle
    BBC Productions for BBC1
    Aristocrats
    Producer Christopher Hall
    Writer Harriet O'Carroll
    Starring
  • Alun Armstrong
  • Richard Dempsey
  • Anne-Marie Duff
  • Julian Fellowes
    •
    Adaptation of Stephen Tillyard's biography of upper-class life in 18th century England
    BBC Productions

    Film

    Director 

    Bantams
    Producer Madeleine French
    Writer Justin Villiers
    Starring
  • Felix Bell
  • Rebecca Brownett
  • Robert Easen
  • Milly Gregory
    •
    Film focusing on the friendship between two Bradford City fans
    Compulsive Viewing
    Divorcing Jack
    Producer Robert Cooper
    Starring
  • Laura Fraser
  • Rachel Griffiths
  • Jason Isaacs
  • Robert Lindsay
    •
    Black romantic comedy set around the troubled peace process and the effect it has on a cynical Belfast hack
    Mosaic Films
    Scala Productions
    On the Nose
    Producer Scott Kennedy, Tristan Lynch
    Writer Tony Philpott
    Starring
  • Dan Aykroyd
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Robbie Coltrane
  • Sinead Keenan
    •
    Film about a luckless gambler who finally finds the secret to picking winners - a preserved head in a jar
    Capitol Films
    Highwire Entertainment

    Writer & Director 

    Bolt
    Producer Jack Armstrong
    Starring
  • Nevan Finegan
  • Darren Lawless
  • Terry McMahon
  • Vincent Smith
    •
    Film about a man who is fed up with his car being broken into and decides to take revenge - but with his aim not quite right he ends up with the police on his heels
    RTE
    Grand Theft Parsons
    Producer Frank Mannion
    Writer Jeremy Drysdale
    Starring
  • Jamie McShane
  • Johnny Knoxville
    •

    Gram Parsons was one of the most influential musicians of his time; a bitter, brilliant, genius who knew Elvis, tripped with the Stones and fatally overdosed on morphine and tequila in 1973.

    Swipe Films

    Writer & Director & Producer 

    The Connivers
    Starring
  • Maclean Burke
  • Jessica Freed
    •
    Short film about a row that erupts by the beach in Wicklow
    Moonshine Films