Gerry Weinbren

Steady work. Programmes on Bristol-Siddeley [BS] for US television. Eye on Research for BBC. Represented KCTV24 [?].

Patricia (Paddy) Foy

Patricia Foy was a distinguished producer and director for the BBC  most famously for  her work with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev,. She will be remembered for persuading Margot Fonteyn …

Stephen Hearst

… College, Oxford.After working freelance on newsreel scripts, Hearst joined the BBC's staff in 1952,and moving over to documentaries where he continued writing their narration.After two years writing …

Robert Beatty

…witness radio reports of the nightly bombing of London during the Blitz for the BBC's Overseas News Service.In 1942, he appeared in two critically acclaimed war propaganda films by Michael Powell and …

Reg Sutton

BIOGRAPHY:Reg Sutton joined the BBC in 1936 as a sound engineer, working on transmitters, studios, and outside broadcasts in Newcastle and London. In 1946 he was recruited by Movietone as a sound engi…

Alan Lawson

… TV he switched union membership from ETU from ACT. Lawson turned down a job at BBC in 1937 as he was not allowed to negotiate wages which he had done in the film industry in the 1930s. Lawson was a p…

Dallas Bower

…936  he was appointed as one of the first two senior producers to the BBC Television Service . He made the BBC television demonstration film - a symposium of the first six month's progr…

Mat Irvine

…space models as a child. cgpublishing.com+2historyproject.org.uk+2He joined the BBC around 1969. His early work included the BBC News photo/stills library.

Michael Houldey

…ITING TUTOR/MENTOR – LONDON FILM SCHOOL since 2010 (also  NFTS, DV Talent, BBC Elstree)                               &n…

Penny Woolcock

… borrowed some film-making equipment and sold the resulting feature to the BBC. She was then hired as a director and editor of a current affairs program in Newcastle and subsequently went on to f…