Paul Bernard was born in London, England on 20 June 1929, and died there on 25 September 1997.
He is remembered as a television director, though he was also a designer on television, most notably on productions of The Avengers.
His TV direction credits include Coronation Street, The Tomorrow People, Z-Cars and the Doctor Who stories Day of the Daleks (1972), The Time Monster (1972) and Frontier in Space (1973).
He also directed four episodes of Virgin of the Secret Service in which he also worked as a supervising producer with Robert D. Cardona.
He is often confused with cameraman, Paul Bernard, born 1962, who has worked as a camera operator on Tales of Aesop for BBC and behind the scenes on "Harry Potter".
Famous quotes containing the words paul and/or bernard:
“After Stéphane Mallarmé, after Paul Verlaine, after Gustave Moreau, after Puvis de Chavannes, after our own verse, after all our subtle colour and nervous rhythm, after the faint mixed tints of Conder, what more is possible? After us the Savage God.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“It does not follow ... that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact—do not be surprised at my modesty—I do not profess to write better plays.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)