Born: 5th November 1953
Episodes Broadcast: 1987

Malcolm Kohll was born and raised in Africa, with his childhood divided between South Africa and Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia). In 1976, he graduated from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa with a Bachelor of Journalism. The following year, Kohll completed a Masters degree in film and television at Middlesex Polytechnic in London. He then spent a number of years unsuccessfully trying to make a career as a scriptwriter, before receiving an invitation to attend workshops organised by the BBC Script Unit. There he met Andrew Cartmel, who became the script editor of Doctor Who in 1987. Cartmel asked Kohll to develop ideas for the show, and the result was the rock-'n-roll-infused Fifties adventure Delta And The Bannermen, starring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. He subsequently novelised the serial for Target Books.

Kohll next wrote the screenplay for the 1990 historical drama The Fourth Reich. He subsequently joined Focus Films as their Head of Development, producing movies including The 51st State, a 2001 action-comedy starring Samuel L Jackson. During the mid-Nineties, Kohll was approached about becoming involved in Doctor Who (1996), the failed revival of the programme as an American co-production. In 2014, he published the original novel Good Hope, a thriller set in South Africa. The same year, Kohll relocated to Cape Town, where he became the Head of the AFDA film school. He left AFDA at the end of 2017 to co-found the Documentary Institute of South Africa.