David McGillivray has been a writer, producer and performer for radio, television, stage and screen since 1964. He is best known for a series of exploitation films - among them House of Whipcord, Frightmare and Satan's Slave - he wrote in the 1970s. In the 1980s David toured with his theatre company Entertainment Machine and began writing for the comedian Julian Clary, a job he has maintained to this day. He wrote the first edition of his seminal history of British sex films, Doing Things, in 1992. The BBC filmed it in 1995. From 2004 David wrote and produced a series of short horror films later joined together as Worst Fears. In 2015 he produced the notorious film Trouser Bar. The second edition of Doing Rude Things followed in 2016. David's autobiography, Little Did You Know, will be published in 2019.