Ben Pickering

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Pickering
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1979(1979-06-23)
Age	45
Birthplace	Beckenham
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Gemini

Ben Pickering Biography

Ben Pickering is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on June 23, 1979 in Beckenham, United Kingdom. Ben Pickering (born 23 June 1979) is a filmmaker from London and novelist. He is most well-known for filming two crime films Two Days in the Smoke and Welcome to Curiosity. He is also known for creating The Political action thriller Election Night and for his dystopian alternate history novel Freiheit.

While in Swansea University, he joined the Conservative Party. He quickly rose through its ranks and was chosen in May 2000 to be his candidate to represent the Labour-controlled Swansea West parliamentary constituency for the 2001 UK General Election.

The allegations against Pickering, by then 32 but which dated back to 2002 (when he was 23), involved the use of proof of income (P60s and payslips) for mortgage applications. The documents incorrectly showed he had paid tens of thousands of pounds in UK income tax and National Insurance contributions. As he hadn’t subsequently paid the taxes in full, all mortgages that he had applied for during his time as a property developer were declared retrospectively fraudulent. In June 2014 he pleaded guilty to five counts of mortgage fraud at Swansea Crown Court.

He continued to work with centre-right think tanks while embarking on a PhD, before finally leaving the Conservative Party in 2006. He is no longer politically affiliated or active.

Socially liberal and economic conservative political figure, Pickering was a very different Conservative candidate from those who previously had been in the race. In the event that he won the seat in the future, his party Swansea Labour Party co-ordinated with the South Wales Evening Post to raise allegations of financial irregularity against Pickering during the telecast of the First Minister’s Questions at the National Assembly for Wales (or Senedd) on June 14, 2000. When then the then First Minister Rhodri Morgan made the allegations without evidence during the Senedd in 2000, he was protected through parliamentary privilege, and Pickering was not able to sue for the libel. If Morgan was unable to make the same allegations beyond the Senedd The high-ranking Conservatives (including Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth who was their previous Welsh chief and defender of Pickering) ordered him to step aside until South Wales Police investigated the allegations. On September 20, 2000, South Wales Police announced that Pickering was not able to answer, and they ended their investigation.

Ben Pickering Net Worth

Ben Pickering is one of the richest Film Director from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Pickering 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His first venture into filmmaking began in 1995, when at just 16, he made and appeared in his first feature film, a coming-of-age drama Backstreet. The following year, he directed and starred in the budget-friendly thriller about gangsters called Tragic Irony. Filmed on 16mm and with a small PS6,000 ($7,500) budget It is described as being a mix of Pulp Fiction and Shallow Grave and a slap at the decadence of Nineties Britain.

Following his debut as a director in 1999, with the pilot episode of the docudrama series How To Get Away With Murder his film career was put on hold when he became deeply implicated within UK politics.

Despite being cleared of any wrongdoing, after the allegations were repackaged by the BBC Wales political programme Dragon’s Eye in April 2001, Pickering’s frontline political career never recovered.

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Three – Pickering, John and Cainen’s ex-girlfriend Emma Davey – pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud at Swansea Crown Court on 13 June 2014. Three other defendants were found not guilty at a trial at Swansea Crown Court in October

2014. The same trial found Cainen guilty and on 18 December 2014, His Honour Judge Keith Thomas sentenced him to 8 years’ imprisonment, Pickering to 6 and John to 3 years 4 months. Davey was given a suspended prison sentence.

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Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Ben Pickering celebrates birthday on June 23 of every year.

The Smoke was released in the UK and Ireland in October 2014 and internationally in 2015 (as London Payback). One of the film’s stars, Jeff Leach, told reporters that many scenes featuring his character Dean ended up on the cutting room floor. IMDB refers to the release as the “studio cut” not the Director’s Cut of the film, which reportedly has 12 minutes of additional unseen footage. Footage not seen in the released version of the film involving Leach as well as Passey and Christian Brassington can be seen in an earlier trailer.