Alison Millar

Alison Millar is one of the finest  documentary filmmakers in the UK and Ireland, widely admired for her sensitive and emotionally compelling work. Alison trained at the  National …

Edward Mirzoeff

…ding creative contribution to television), the Sam uelson Award, a British Film Institute Television Award, British Video Award, an International Emmy, and the awards of the Broadcastin…

Cyril Page

At 14 he started looking for work in films; told to contact Bunny Williams at Ealing Studios, who transferred him to Ernie Gartside at Worton Hall where he was taken on as a clapper boy. Jimmy Wi…

Larry Allen

…en first began producing animations as a boy by drawing directly onto pieces of film salvaged from nearby cinemas. He later relocated to Coventry where he worked as an engineer at the Hillman Humber c…

Lew Grade

…and The Muppet Show (1976-81). Grade also worked, with occasional success, as a film producer. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) remains his most popular credit.

Gus Walker

…n in Paris for Murder on the Orient Express. De Gaulle’s double. Last film for Zinnemann with Jane Fonda (Julia). Worked with Micky Powell on The Spy in Black. Doctor Zhivago&…

Jill Craigie

…946) about the rebuilding of Plymouth, Jill Craigie was a committed documentary film-maker and socialist throughout her career. Having worked as a journalist through the 1930s, she entered the British…

Ernest Dudley

…ght at Eight. Conceived in a Bristol cellar during an air raid, he was based on film actor and director Erich von Stroheim, whom Ernest had met briefly in Paris in the 1930s. With his secretary Miss F…

Mattie (Matthew) Faint

…‘four-week salary band’. Matt returned to Lesotho to stage Hair â€“ the film had been banned in Johannesburg – shipping all the costumes etc., from Japan. He spent four years in Barbados, stay…

David Collison

…73. He worked with David Attenborough on Tribal Art. He talks about a film he made called Non-Ordinary Monk which stirred it up. Next, on to the Silbury Hill excavations, a two-yea…