Television
Produced and presented the BBC arts magazine Monitor (1958–1964) and Review (1971–1972). Also produced Kean (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1954) for BBC television (starring Anthony Hopkins and directed by James Cellan Jones) (1978).
Directed the following productions:
- Langrishe, Go Down (starring Judi Dench and Jeremy Irons) (1978)
- Look Back in Anger (co-directed with Lindsay Anderson and starring Malcolm McDowell) (1980)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (starring Richard Griffiths as Falstaff) (1982)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
- The Devil's Disciple (1987)
- The Christmas Wife (starring Jason Robards and Julie Harris) (1988)
- Fire in the Dark (starring Olympia Dukakis) (1991)
- And Then There Was One (1994)
- A Christmas Carol
Also various episodes of:
- Picket Fences (1992)
- Chicago Hope (1994)
- The Practice (The Civil Right) (1997)
- Law & Order: SVU (1999)
- 7th Heaven (2003)
- Bones (The Man on Death Row) (2005)
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)