Shaun Sutton
Director and Producer
Patrick Cargill...who clashes with him in the "The Blood Donor" (1961). In 1962 he played Herr Straffen in The Last Man Out, a TV series by Shaun Sutton followed two years later by a major part of an episode of The Avengers '' TV series. In 1967, he... In this article: Patrick Cargill, Noel Coward, Beryl Reid, Tony Hancock, Ray Cooney, Patrick Macnee, West End, London, and Gigi |
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BBC Television Shakespeare
...Kingdom and the United States. The series was initiated by Cedric Messina, and produced by Messina, Jonathan Miller, and Shaun Sutton; directors and other crew varied from play to play. The entire series has been released in the US on...
In this article: William Shakespeare, BBC Television Shakespeare, DVD, Richard II, United States, Falstaff, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Henry VIII, and Henry IV
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History of Doctor Who
...to carry on playing the Doctor for a long period of time. By this point Savory had moved on as Head of Serials and his successor, Shaun Sutton, was more favourable to change, allowing Wiles' replacement, Innes Lloyd, to make many of the very...
In this article: Doctor Who, Doctor, John Nathan-Turner, BBC One, BBC Television, William Hartnell, Tom Baker, Derrick Sherwin, and Graham Williams
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Don Taylor (director)
...- an educational science-fiction serial for children entitled Doctor Who. Taylor had no interest in the series, however, and after Shaun Sutton also turned down the job it eventually went to Verity Lambert, with the programme becoming an...
In this article: Don Taylor, Sydney Newman, David Mercer, William Shakespeare, BBC, Euripides, And Did Those Feet, Pembroke College, Oxford, and Iphigenia at Aulis
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Henry Kendall (actor)
...at the Aldwych Theatre, March 1935; and New Theatre, May 1935 On Monday Next... (Harry Blacker, also directed in association with Shaun Sutton) Embassy Theatre, April 1949; Comedy Theatre, June 1949 Beat the Panel (Oliver Charrington)...
In this article: Henry Kendall, Hermione Gingold, Much Ado About Nothing, Air Force Cross, Royal Air Force, New Theatre, City of London School, Lighthouse, and Twelfth Night
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Verity Lambert
...to last longer than thirteen weeks. Although Lambert was not Newman's first choice to produce the series - Don Taylor and Shaun Sutton had both declined the position - the Canadian was very keen to ensure that Lambert took the job...
In this article: Verity Lambert, BBC Television, Sydney Newman, Doctor Who, Thames Television, Cinema Verity, Euston Films, Daleks, and BBC One
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Sydney Newman
..."caretaker producer" of the programme). After the series had been conceptualised, Newman initially approached Don Taylor and then Shaun Sutton to produce it, although both declined. He then decided on his former production assistant at...
In this article: Sydney Cecil Newman, John Grierson, Donald Wilson, Ted Kotcheff, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and ITV
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Graeme Harper
Further television work followed in the late 1950s, appearing in children's serials for BBC Television under producer / director Shaun Sutton. From the ages of sixteen to twenty-one Harper worked predominantly in the theatre, not only as...
In this article: Graeme Harper, Doctor Who, John Nathan-Turner, BBC Television, Colin Baker, Douglas Camfield, and BBC Television Centre
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Graeme MacDonald
...and MacDonald became head of the new larger Series & Serials department which ensued. In 1981, he was promoted again to succeed Shaun Sutton as the overall Head of Drama at BBC Television. MacDonald was promoted again in 1983, becoming...
In this article: Graeme MacDonald, BBC Television, The Wednesday Play, BBC Two, Jack Rosenthal, Dennis Potter, Bar Mitzvah Boy, and Play for Today
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Moonbase 3
...intelligent, realistic drama rather than Science Fantasy", and submitted a pilot script, titled "Departure and Arrival", to Shaun Sutton, the Head of Drama at the BBC. The series was formally commissioned in December 1972 and would...
In this article: Moonbase 3, Doctor Who, Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Radio Times, and Donald Houston
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Shaun Sutton
'Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE ' (14 October 1919 in Hammersmith, London - 14 May 2004 in Norfolk) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the...
In this article: Graham Sutton, BBC Television, Sydney Newman, Winston Churchill, and Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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Shaun Alfred Graham Sutton OBE (born 14 October 1919 in Hammersmith, London; died 14 May 2004 in Norfolk) was an English television writer, director, producer and executive, who worked in the medium for nearly forty years from the 1950s to the 1990s. His most important role was as the Head of Drama at BBC Television from the late 1960s until 1981, a role he occupied for longer than anybody else before or since, overseeing one of the most highly-regarded eras in the department's history.
Sutton's father, Graham Sutton, was a theatre critic and novelist as well as being a teacher at Latymer Upper School, where Sutton himself was educated. His mother was an actress, and Sutton followed in her footsteps by enrolling in drama school after leaving Latymer. However, the coming of the Second World War interrupted his career and he joined the Royal Navy, seeing action in the Mediterranean and attaining the rank of Lieutenant.
Following the end of the war and his departure from the armed forces, Sutton returned to the theatre, but increasingly moved toward writing and producing rather than acting, apparently on the advice of his mother. Later in life, he would claim that this advice had saved him from becoming "an ageing, mediocre actor". In the late 1940s he met the actress Barbara Leslie, to whom he was married until his death.
He continued to work as a producer following the end of this run and into the late 1980s, mostly of theatrical adaptations for BBC2. His final work was as the producer of an adaptation of Mary Stewart's novel Merlin of the Crystal Cave in 1991, after which he retired to the country cottage in Norfolk which he and his wife had bought in 1970.
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