
Birthday:
09-19-1941
Deathday:
08-07-2016 (74 years)
Birthplace:
Kingston Upon Hull, UK
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First and Last
Director
event1989 star_border 7
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The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
Star Quality
Director
event1985 star_border 5
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Lorraine Barrie, a fading but brilliant actress with a penchant for manipulating every theatrical endeavour to her best advantage, meets her match when she must trust her success to an equally willful stage director.
Ice Dance
Director
event1989
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A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.
The Brides in the Bath
Producer
event2003 star_border 5.9
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Dramatisation of the real-life case of George Joseph Smith who was hanged in 1915 for the murder of his three wives, each of whom he killed in turn by drowning them in the bath while trying to make the deaths look like accidents.
A Is for Acid
Producer
event2002 star_border 7.1
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Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.
Daft Mam Blues
Director
event1977
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As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
Lost Property
Director
event1986
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Anne and John Forrest live in an old Victorian school building. But what for Anne is the fulfillment of her childhood fantasy about a “pretend” school is too real for John and a former pupil at the school.
The Missing Postman
Director
event1997 star_border 5
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When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.
Flea Bites
Director
event1992
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The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus
Broke
Director
event1991
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Francis and his wife, Elaine, are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by Ron, a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Francis finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend Ron's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.
The Life and Crimes of William Palmer
Director
event1998 star_border 9.5
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Keith Allen plays William Palmer in this true story of a Victorian-era English surgeon who uses poison to settle scores and ward off debt. William lacks a sense of regret, even after killing his wife, brother and three of his own children.
Bessie and the Bell
Director
event2001
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Bessie Foley, kindly ladies' lavatory attendant, tells her tragic story.
Fair Game
Director
event1994 star_border 3.5
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It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.
The Locksmith
Director
event1997 star_border 2.5
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When his estranged wife is brutally attacked by a burglar, a law-abiding locksmith unconvinced that the junkie charged for the crime is the real attacker starts his own investigation.
Stormin' Norman
Director
event2000
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A monologue drama from Chris Chibnall starring James Bolam as a tube driver on his last day before retirement
The Muscle Market
Director
event1981 star_border 7
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Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly
Director
event1978
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One man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
Between the Lines
Director (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 5.6
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Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
Johnny Jarvis
Director (6 ep.)
event1983 star_border 5
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Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton are two teenagers in their final year of secondary school at a comprehensive in Hackney in 1977. Energetic, anxious and occasionally naïve, the unlikely pair are on the brink of entering the adult world of the late '70s and early '80s when prospects are slim.
Connie
Director (13 ep.)
event1985 star_border 10
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After years of exile in Greece, Connie returns to England to lay claim to the family fashion business.
Bergerac
Director (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6.5
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Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
The Missing Postman
Director (2 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6.5
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Postman Clive Peacock decides to rebel when his employers force him to take early retirement. Setting off on his bike, he determines to deliver his last batch of post by hand all over the country. The police are soon on his trail, while the media acclaim him as a hero. For Clive it is a journey of discovery, but he is unaware that back at home his wife is undergoing her own transformation.
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