Hugo Edgar Maxwell Blick (born 7 December 1964) is a British filmmaker and actor.
[5] He has acted in several films, including appearing as a young Jack Napier, the character who would ultimately become The Joker, in Tim Burton's Batman.
He has also had producer credits on several works including Roger & Val Have Just Got In starring Dawn French and Alfred Molina.
As a writer he co-created, produced and co-directed along with Simon Petter the TV comedies Marion and Geoff with Rob Brydon, Operation Good Guys in which he also appeared as 'Smiler' McCarthy and wrote and created the noir thriller The Shadow Line (2011) for the BBC, which starred Chiwetel Ejiofor and Christopher Eccleston.
[11][12] In 2021, it was announced that Blick would direct The English, a western with Emily Blunt, which he also wrote, for BBC Two and Amazon Prime Video.